In the nightclub, Su Tang was weaving her own legend.
"Your people, you handle them. Educate them, then they can work with us. Say whatever you want, do as you please, you can deal with it yourself later," Su Tang said impatiently. "Don't you have a lot of work at the construction site? I remember you have a transport team? A scrap yard? Oh, my master mentioned it casually! Talk to the construction site later – I didn't come here today to drum up business for you, I have important matters!"
"Understood, please come to my office. I'll be right there!" The Monk waved his hand, assigned a waiter to escort Su Tang to the office area behind the nightclub.
"Wang Jue, get up, stop acting. You can't afford to mess with this girl," the Monk said, sitting down on the sofa after Su Tang left, and then pulling Wang Jue up.
"My dear girl, with just one phone call, I lost everything. Monk, we're all out here trying to make a living. I've been suppressed for over a year, and I just wanted to show off a bit. Give me a way out, just call me 'Lord Jue' casually, and I'll have something to tell my brothers – I took a knife for you half a year ago, you can't refuse me this, can you?" Wang Jue's legs were weak, and he couldn't stand up. He sat on the ground and complained to the Monk. "You yourself said that the equipment of those old brothers is outdated. Nowadays, who doesn't have scented paper towels? They'll be eliminated sooner or later. I kindly accepted this job, gave you face and handled it according to the rules of the street. From now on, they won't do anything, just take a share of the profits. This is a good thing!"
"Enough, brother, you've had too much fun. It's your bad luck to run into this," the Monk said, slowly pulling Wang Jue up to sit down. "This is for the best. You won't have to give kickbacks to that project manager anymore. He's the worst one. Now that a benefactor has appeared, all the boxed lunches for the entire project will be ours. You won't have to 'alternate days' with other competitors. We'll do it together, and you won't earn less!" https:/
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Wang Jue, after a quick mental calculation, realized that the Monk was right. He no longer felt down and happily asked the Monk to make the call.
"Brother, so, we have a backer now?" Wang Jue finally understood.
"We can't reach the An siblings, I know they won't give us a second glance," the Monk squinted. "But this young lady has come to us herself. Such a benefactor is hard to find in a thousand years. If we can secure this, our brothers won't have to worry about food and drink for two generations!"
"That makes sense! Brother Monk, we will sincerely strive for this fortune!" Wang Jue was not stupid and immediately understood the Monk's meaning. What is a benefactor? You lead hundreds of followers, looking for food everywhere, risking your lives to get it! But with one phone call from them, everyone can eat well, eat heartily! That is a benefactor!
"We brothers must sincerely strive for this fortune!" the Monk finally made up his mind. "Tell the brothers in Flower Street to recognize our benefactor. At every festival and important occasion, all due respect and offerings must not be neglected!"
"But will this person be willing?" a dark-faced man next to the Monk asked with a frown.
"This world is difficult to navigate. I see that this person is also someone who values loyalty. Today, there was a misunderstanding where Wang Jue was bullied, and she intervened when she saw injustice. This led to this whole fiasco," the Monk said. "There will be plenty of time in the future! This person seems to still be in school? Arrange for a few quick and capable people to follow her, serve her, protect her, day and night, without any mistakes. This person is our future benefactor, our benefactor for now!"
"Brother, how should we address this benefactor in the future? Do we have a gang name for her?" a refined brother casually asked.
"Heh, didn't she say it when she came in?" the Monk glanced at his phone, where a text message from the bearded man outside was displayed.
"The gang name is 'Granddaughter'!" the Monk said, raising his wine glass and drinking it all in one gulp.
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Thus, through a chance encounter, the fifteen-year-old Su Tang became the "benefactor" of the Flower Street gang! From then on, on this street, the name "Granddaughter" echoed through every nightclub and bar. Hundreds of previously unemployed brothers, through businesses like boxed lunches, construction waste removal, and scrap recycling, finally had a stable income. These loyal individuals secretly vowed that if "Granddaughter" provided their livelihood, their lives were hers!
Many years later, Ping An would never have dreamed that his most precious disciple, whom he guarded more fiercely than gold and jewels, would summon three hundred thugs with a single phone call, all of whom would salute her as "Granddaughter." What was that all about?
However, at the moment, the innocent Su Tang had not yet realized that she had become the "Granddaughter" to hundreds of people. Her mind was occupied by a case.
After pacifying his brothers, the Monk, with great care, entered the office.
"Uncle, I'm here today because I have something to ask you?" Su Tang, who had been impatiently waiting, said.
"Please, go ahead!" the Monk replied concisely and efficiently.
"Before, in Fengdian Community, those four people who bullied me, yes, the four surnamed Gao, where are they now?" Su Tang asked eagerly.
The Monk glanced discreetly at the still healing scar on Su Tang's face and replied, "I'll go find them for you right away!"
The Monk was quick. In less than twenty minutes, a heavily tattooed man walked in with the Monk.
"They were here this morning, but we can't find them now. The latest news is that those four people seem to have taken on a big job and borrowed a car to go on a trip," the tattooed man said. "We've already sent our brothers to investigate, and they should be able to find out where they went!"
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"Gone? Today?" Su Tang thought for a moment, then suddenly took out a stack of cash from her bag. "I left in a hurry today and didn't bring much money. This is less than thirty thousand yuan. Please, go to great lengths to find out about those four people for me."
Looking at the money on the table, the tattooed man hesitated and glanced at the Monk.
"Technically, we shouldn't take it! But the benefactor gave it, so it must be important. Take it!" the Monk said serenely. "Take the money and do a good job!"
The familiar scene made the tattooed man instantly get into character.
"Benefactor, please wait a moment!" the man said, patting his chest. He quickly took the money and left.
"May I ask one more question, how does the benefactor plan to deal with these four people?" the Monk asked. "Killing isn't very popular anymore. Most of our brothers have gone straight – of course, if the benefactor insists, it's not impossible, but it will require some 'family support' money! The brothers on the street are loyal. As long as the 'family support' money is in place, they won't talk even if they get caught by the police later."
"What do you mean!?" Su Tang was confused by the Monk's words and quickly waved her hands. "Don't misunderstand, I suspect these four people are involved in a case. My master is inconvenient right now, so I can only investigate myself!"
"A case? What case?" the Monk was also confused.
"Oh, it's that, that murder case in Fengdian Community!" Su Tang said perfunctorily, not having time to explain.
"Oh! If that's the case, then you're upholding justice!" the Monk suddenly became happy.
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Thinking of the four thugs, Su Tang nodded perfunctorily.
"That makes things easier. Do you know if we should apprehend them when we get news, or...?" The Monk's thoughts had taken a wrong turn, seemingly far off track.
"I'm a detective, I only investigate cases. Catching people is the police's job. We must be law-abiding citizens," Su Tang said, afraid that this group of people would misunderstand her intentions and quickly clarifying.
A sensible person with foresight! It seemed that following this benefactor, they wouldn't have to live in fear anymore. After hearing Su Tang's words, the Monk was increasingly satisfied with this "benefactor." To be honest, although his group had pledged allegiance to the "benefactor," they were afraid of being used as pawns. Occasionally beating someone up or scaring someone was fine, but helping to commit murder and robbery would lead to a bad end. But now, with Su Tang's words, it meant that this "Granddaughter" would at least have a bottom line in her future arrangements, which was to not break the law. As long as the law was not broken, the business could last.
Su Tang noticed the Monk staring at her and turned away a little self-consciously. The Monk didn't feel any awkwardness. Instead, he got up and poured his benefactor another cup of hot water.
"Don't worry, the people we sent out are experienced and know the boundaries," the Monk said. "We don't know when we'll get news. Why don't you go back and rest? If you could leave me a phone number, I'll notify you as soon as I have any news."
Su Tang checked the time and realized it was close to the usual time school ended. She had been staying at her godmother's house these days. Although Fei Keqing doted on her, she was also extremely strict. What if she returned late? What if she found out she had been to Flower Street today?
Su Tang shivered and exchanged contact information with the Monk.
"I really can't stay today, I'm leaving now. Please be sure to notify me when you have news, Uncle," Su Tang urged repeatedly before leaving.
"Okay, the car is parked outside. Oh, it's raining outside. I'll arrange for you to go back," the Monk said politely.
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She had been nervous when she arrived at the nightclub, and she was still nervous on her way back. Of course, no one dared to tease Su Tang anymore. The bearded man who had blocked her path earlier was now standing at the entrance as a "doorman" with a serious expression. The buck-toothed man who had teased her earlier stood awkwardly to the side, giving Su Tang a smile that was uglier than a cry.
"Safe journey, Benefactor!" As Su Tang walked out, a deafening shout erupted from the nightclub, almost scaring the young girl to death.
At the entrance, a black Mercedes-Benz 600 was parked perfectly.
An uncle in a black shirt opened the door for Su Tang solicitously.
"Hello, my name is Shugen. You can call me Dashu from now on," the uncle said, keeping his head down, so Su Tang didn't look closely.
After buckling her seatbelt, the uncle turned around and asked for the destination.
"To – Oh my god! Your face!" Su Tang swore she had never seen such a terrifying face before. On the uncle's face, there was a large "X" shaped scar. The scar was big and long, crossing from left to right over his eyelids, over his nose bridge, along his mouth to his chin. The scar from right to left slashed from the corner of his right eye across his nose bridge, all the way to the root of his left ear.
"I'm sorry, I scared you. It's an old wound, the scar is too obvious," Dashu said apologetically.
"It's okay, it's okay. Please take me to the Golden Card Kingdom community near Guangming CBD! Um, that scar of yours!" Su Tang suddenly realized she was being impolite and quickly tried to make amends. "Your scar is really imposing!"
Dashu heard this and smiled casually, nodding with satisfaction.
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Of course, if Su Tang knew that the scarred uncle in front of her was the "top fighter" of Hechuan City back then, she wouldn't have joked so casually.
If not for the Fengdian Community case, Fei Keqing would probably be married by now. Although she said she wasn't in a hurry, her heart had been burning with anxiety. Especially after realizing that her "period" had been absent for two consecutive months, she wanted to strangle Gao Xiaofei.
Su Tang's arrival brought her some comfort.
Although she was her "godmother," Fei Keqing's "maternal instincts" were currently in overdrive. For example, when she noticed Su Tang was an hour later than usual, she started to nag.
"Why are you only getting home now?"
"You didn't answer your phone, we thought you weren't coming back."
"There are only half an hour left until evening self-study, do you still have time?"
"Eat something first, what are you rummaging through?"
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Back at Fei Keqing's house, Su Tang rushed to her bedroom and opened a large box to find the bank card her aunt had left her. Su Tang had moved in with Fei Keqing in a hurry, and it was Gao Xiaofei who helped her pack her belongings from home. A person so careless that she couldn't even remember if she wore underwear in the morning – what could you expect him to pack for a girl's things?
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Indeed, there were no cards in the suitcase.
Disappointed, Su Tang squatted by the bed, thinking of a solution. She had carelessly handed over all her cash that day, which was their living expenses for her and her master. Now that she didn't have her bank card, would she have to go back to get it after evening self-study?
She couldn't handle a case out of town without money. Su Tang had finally found something related to the case, and she couldn't let this opportunity pass without making the most of it, lest she be unworthy of her master's reprimand.
"Godmother, I left something at home. I need to go get it after self-study," Su Tang said helplessly, shouting downstairs, as she had no choice but to go home for money.
"What is it? Godmother can buy it for you," Fei Keqing's voice replied, leaving no room for negotiation.
What a hassle. If she had known her master was going to run away from home, she wouldn't have come to stay here. It would be so much more comfortable to be alone at home, Su Tang thought with frustration.
She had intended to go back to get money, but after a wasted trip, Su Tang had to go out again using evening self-study as an excuse.
"It's raining, I'll give you a ride," Fei Keqing said, not willing to let Su Tang go alone in the rain.
"It's fine, I'll take a taxi," Su Tang replied, running off without waiting for Fei Keqing to change, not looking back.
"This child, always in such a rush!" Fei Keqing put down her coat and was about to go to the kitchen to wash dishes when she suddenly stopped.
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"She didn't come back for lunch and she's returning late in the afternoon – is something wrong with this child?" Thinking this, Fei Keqing hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and went into the kitchen.
She certainly wasn't going to evening self-study. Su Tang, who usually played the role of a good student, was going to take a few days off, claiming to be sick. Her homeroom teacher, who was "results-oriented" and always doted on Su Tang, readily granted the leave.
With school taken care of, and with her cunning master not around and her godmother preoccupied with wedding plans, the fifteen-year-old Su Tang was ready for a big undertaking.
Her godmother's home was not far from her own. A thirty-minute walk later, Su Tang entered her home in the dark.
The house was just as she had left it.
There was even a cup of water left by Qiao Yiyan on the table.
Su Tang tried not to think about these things and went straight to her room, taking her bank card from the nightstand.
There was about sixty thousand yuan in the bank card. In the closet drawer, there was also a large red envelope with ten thousand Euros in cash, which was her grandmother's first Lunar New Year gift last year. Su Tang was reluctant to spend it, so she decided to take her aunt's emergency credit card.
With the financial problem solved, Su Tang also grabbed some of her personal underwear. Her godfather was an idiot. He came to get her clothes but didn't pack any underwear. However, a carefree person like him probably wouldn't even bother wearing underwear when he went to work.
After getting what she needed, Su Tang ran into her master's bedroom, expertly opened the closet, rummaged through the clothes, and then activated a switch on the wooden panel of the closet.
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Behind the closet was a hidden room, not very large, which was originally the walk-in closet of the bedroom. However, Ping An didn't care much about such things. He didn't have many clothes for himself, so he divided the walk-in closet and made it into a hidden room.
In the center of the hidden room stood five longbows, each with a quiver of arrows beside it. These arrows were all sharpened. Su Tang knew that the black bow was her master's favorite, and the quiver paired with it only had eleven arrows. One of them had been broken in half and given to her by her master. Yes, it was the arrow that killed Su Tang's father.
Looking at the wall full of bows and arrows, Su Tang couldn't help but feel envious. She had begged her master to teach her some decent skills, like archery, but her master said she had no "bow bone" and refused to teach her. Later, she asked An Jing and found out that it was because her development was too good, making it unsuitable for archery. At that time, Su Tang looked at her aunt's prominent chest and understood that she meant it was inconvenient. Later, Su Tang gave up asking about it, wanting to have a good figure.
Since she couldn't use bows and arrows, why did Su Tang open the hidden room? It turned out she was here to get her own weapon, yes, not a bow and arrow, but a crossbow that could fire six short arrows continuously.
Ping An appeared lazy, but in reality, he was a skilled craftsman. After Su Tang moved in, her master, worried about her safety, made her a crossbow as a gift.
It was a straight-barreled crossbow without a handle. When using it, one hand held one end still, and the other hand twisted the other end. Six triggers would pop out along the wooden barrel, and each trigger pressed would fire a corresponding short arrow, shooting them out in sequence by pressing different triggers. To be honest, this crossbow was made by Ping An, inspired by a revolver. The short arrows were about the length of a cigarette. To reduce the weight, hollow aluminum tubes were used. The arrowhead was a spade tip, not a three-edged one, as he didn't want Su Tang to accidentally kill someone. The crossbow as a whole resembled a marker pen, and its lethality was naturally limited, with an effective range of only three meters. It wasn't that Ping An was unwilling to increase the power, but that Su Tang couldn't aim accurately from further away.
In Su Tang's eyes, the black and red crossbow was like a "great weapon." Although she cursed her master every day these past few days, the things her master made were never just for show.
After taking the crossbow, Su Tang closed the hidden room. As she was about to leave, she felt a pang of reluctance when turning off the light.
What about this "love journey"? Since her master left, Hei Dou had also disappeared. He called to say he was going back to the countryside to harvest apples. She wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with Grandpa Gao Da, but found that the old man had vanished. He called to say he was going to the countryside with Hei Dou to help harvest apples.
Oh, could they make their lie any more elaborate? Helping her master solve a case is helping her master solve a case! What's the big deal? I have a case to solve now too! Su Tang pouted and complained endlessly about those two, finally getting to her master.
"What love, what romance, do they really think my master is blind?"
"After the case is solved, I won't be nice to you anymore."
"Little Wife Lin Dang is better."
"That's right, find time to go see her!"
Finally, there was someone caring to talk to, and Su Tang skipped and jumped out of the house.
At the skewer shop outside Hechuan No. 4 Middle School.
Su Tang ate a piece of bean curd skin with great relish.
The proprietress of the snack bar looked at Su Tang dotingly. Noticing that the soup in her bowl seemed a bit cold, she quickly added a spoonful.
Ping An always disliked Su Tang eating such things, but Su Tang insisted on eating one every day after self-study, without fail.
"Lots of chili, lots of garlic, lots of sesame paste! A large portion of bean curd, a bowl of blanched cabbage, two portions of pork skin..." A stylishly dressed young girl, pushing aside the thick curtain of the snack bar, shivered as she walked in and ordered her food.
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There weren't many customers in the snack bar, only three or four people at a long table. The young girl who had just entered probably hadn't seen the customers clearly and bypassed the other male classmates, plopping down next to Su Tang.
"Jiang Tingting?"
"Su Tang?"
It turned out they knew each other? Yes, not only did they know each other, but they had quite a history. Last semester, on Valentine's Day, Su Tang received the most love letters from the girls in the entire school. This achievement had always been held by Jiang Tingting, who was in the same grade but different class as Su Tang. As for Jiao Zi, because of Su Tang's arrival, her usual second-place status was gone, and she was relegated to third.
Jiao Zi, as the third place, was naturally not angry, because before that, she had bet with Jiang Tingting that Jiang Tingting would not rank first in love letters this year. Jiang Tingting was also a young lady from a wealthy family, but unlike Jiao Zi, she was not at all spoiled because she grew up with her police chief grandfather. Come to think of it, she wasn't the type of girl who liked to flaunt her love letters, but ever since the first semester of junior high, the young boys, filled with youthful hormones, always liked to compare her with Jiao Zi. Through these comparisons, the two developed an intersection and gradually became enemies.
After Su Tang transferred schools, she accidentally became Jiao Zi's deskmate and thus became one of Jiao Zi's people. This bet, Su Tang actually knew nothing about it. By the time she found out, Jiao Zi and Jiang Tingting were already fighting in the girls' restroom.
Although girls fighting wasn't a pretty sight, they still had to hit where it counted. Thus, in the fight, Jiao Zi was clearly at a disadvantage. Although Su Tang disliked their bet, seeing Jiao Zi at a disadvantage, and based on the natural conditions of being classmates and deskmates, she subdued Jiang Tingting with a move taught by her aunt – a grappling technique. Jiang Tingting was taller than Su Tang, but after being subdued with one move, she immediately judged that her opponent was a trained fighter and decided to stop there. She then left in a huff.
After this incident, Su Tang and Jiang Tingting met at school but no longer spoke.
Su Tang thought that this storm would end here, but it wasn't until she saw a case at the police station today that she had to see Jiang Tingting.
In the snack bar, Jiang Tingting saw Su Tang and, with apparent disdain, asked to move seats immediately. However, unexpectedly, the other party grabbed her and made her sit back down.
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"Auntie, five more portions of pork skin, I'm treating today!" The first part was said to the proprietress, and the latter part was said by Su Tang to Jiang Tingting.
"I have money, I don't need you to treat me!" Jiang Tingting seemed unwilling to accept and threw a fifty-yuan bill onto the table.
"We're classmates, how long are you going to put on airs?" Su Tang had been with her master for a while and knew how to deal with different people. For a straightforward person like Jiang Tingting, it was best to speak frankly.
"Oh, you're not going to cling to your rich patron Yang Jiao, what's with you today?" Jiang Tingting, although she didn't move, her words were still sharp.
"Alright, I've never clung to her, and I don't care to. Don't be sarcastic. So what if I threw you down that day? If it were you being beaten by Yang Jiao, I would have thrown her down."
"How dare you! You, a poor child, eating from others, using others, and wearing others' things, don't think I don't know. I've checked what school you attended before. You even owed tuition fees for tutoring before—" Jiang Tingting said with a regretful look at Su Tang. "Don't pretend to be strong. I know, it's spread around the school that Yang Jiao is going abroad to study. I guess you won't have anyone to support you now!"
"Bang!" Even the most good-tempered person couldn't stand this. Su Tang clenched her fist and slammed it heavily on the table.
It wasn't because Jiang Tingting compared her to a dog, but because she had touched upon her past life, the tutoring fees, and her father who had to drive ride-sharing cars after work to earn money...