Several traffic police cars caught up and stopped behind Li Wei's Audi, but the officers did not get out of their cars. Instead, they made phone calls inside, seemingly waiting for orders from their superiors.
Zhou Xuan helped Old Li through the crowd and into the building. There they saw Fu Ying and Li Wei helping his mother, Jin Xiumei, up from the ground. It was indeed him.
Aunt Liu was still trembling with fear, and when she saw Li Wei and Fu Ying arrive, she was speechless.
Zhou Xuan didn't care about anything else and quickly squatted down to support his mother. Jin Xiumei's face was deathly pale, and her right cheek was swollen, with obvious handprints. There was also blood at the corner of her mouth. When she saw Zhou Xuan and the others, tears streamed down Jin Xiumei's face, and she started crying as soon as she opened her mouth.
When Zhou Xuan saw that his mother's mouth was full of blood, his heart ached terribly.
Her eyes reddened, and she immediately asked, "Mom, what happened?"
Although Li Wei and Fu Ying were angry, they were most concerned about Jin Xiumei's injuries and didn't think to ask about the situation while supporting her.
Jin Xiumei mumbled a couple of words, but after being slapped in the face, she was clearly not speaking clearly. She mumbled a couple of words and couldn't make it out clearly, but she pointed to a spot three or four meters ahead.
Zhou Xuan looked in the direction his mother pointed, and saw four or five men looking at them with sneers three or four meters away. Two of them looked very familiar, and after looking again, he immediately remembered them.
These two are Lin Guodong, the son of Director Lin, whom we met earlier at the fishing spot, and his subordinate who was flattering his father. We don't recognize the other few people, but they must be subordinates of General Manager Chen who came to welcome them to dinner.
It turned out to be this group of people.
Zhou Xuan's anger flared up instantly. He might have needed to understand the situation with others, but he was certain Lin Guodong was no good. Without a second thought, he stepped forward and coldly asked, "Hey, you surnamed Lin, explain yourself!"
When Lin Guodong saw that it was the stunningly beautiful woman and her boyfriend he had met by the fishpond, he was overjoyed. He thought to himself, "This is great! An opportunity that has fallen from the sky! Let her see what real wealth and power are like. Such a beautiful girl with such a man is worse than a flower stuck in cow dung. Now that I've met her again, it's an opportunity given by heaven. Even the heavens wouldn't allow me to turn down this opportunity."
Lin Guodong chuckled, glancing sideways at Zhou Xuan, and said, "Heh heh, so you know my surname is Lin? Then how dare you speak loudly to me? What are you talking about? Is this country bumpkin your mother? She threw a bag of vegetables on my car, damn it, do you know how much my car costs? A Ferrari worth over three million, over three million, never seen that much money before, have you? My car is worth millions, can you afford to pay for it..."
"Fuck your mother!" Li Wei rushed forward and kicked him in the groin before he could finish speaking. Lin Guodong cried out "Ouch!" and immediately squatted down, clutching his groin.
Without thinking twice, Zhou Xuan grabbed Lin Guodong by the hair and started beating him mercilessly in the face, making Lin Guodong cry out in pain.
To be honest, Lin Guodong's companions never expected that the other side, consisting of two men, an old man, and a woman, would have no advantage over the six or seven men present. They were also surprised that Zhou Xuan and Li Wei dared to step forward and were still in a daze.
Once they came to their senses, they realized that Lin Guodong had been beaten. They shouted and rushed forward, ready to attack Li Wei and Zhou Xuan. But Fu Ying didn't wait for them to make a move. She quickly knocked down the remaining six strong men, which stunned the onlookers.
Fu Ying's movements were lightning fast. Before the onlookers could even see how she did it, the six people were lying on the ground screaming and unable to get up.
Zhou Xuan and Li Wei disregarded the consequences and began to beat Lin Guodong mercilessly. Although Li Wei did not have the physique of Fu Ying and Wei Xiaoyu, he was experienced and knew how to beat someone hard without fatally injuring their joints. A little more force would easily cripple them, but it would not endanger their lives.
During this beating, Lin Guodong had one leg broken and his fingers crushed by Zhou Xuan. Because Zhou Xuan saw the injury on the old man's face and estimated from the direction and gesture that it should be Lin Guodong's right hand, he didn't think twice and directly crushed Lin Guodong's right hand and fingers.
Lin Guodong's side was initially in a very advantageous position, but the situation suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse. All seven of them were injured and lying on the ground. They knew they couldn't win a fight unless they called for help. But help wouldn't arrive immediately. A wise man doesn't fight a losing battle. Some of the injured quickly took out their phones to call for help.
Zhou Xuan and Li Wei did not stop them, letting them make phone calls to bring people over.
One of them saw several traffic police cars parked on the side of the road not far away, with police officers inside, and immediately shouted for help: "Help! Someone's being hit! Police, come and help!"
But the police officers in the three police cars pretended not to hear and didn't move an inch.
Zhou Xuan chuckled coldly and said, "Calling anyone won't make a difference. Lin, I just want to know how you hit me."
Lin Guodong's face was swollen like a pig's head, and tears streamed down his face from the beating. He had never suffered hardship or been beaten in his entire life, let alone been bullied. He was always the one bullying others; this was the first time he had ever experienced such a thing, and it happened in front of a pretty girl he wanted to show off to.
As they were talking, four or five jeeps drove up to the roadside in a hurry, and more than a dozen strange men got out. They all looked fierce and moved quickly. When they surrounded them, Lin Guodong even looked happy, thinking that their reinforcements had arrived. In his mind, Zhou Xuan's side did not have so many reinforcements.
However, Lin Guodong was badly beaten, and his face was no longer expressive. Moreover, he did not expect that these people were not their saviors.
Among the people who gathered around, one of the leaders asked, "Who was the one who did the hitting?"
Zhou Xuan recognized this person; he was one of the two military officers Li Lei had assigned to him as bodyguards when he went to Tengchong last year. The bodyguard was Company Commander Zheng Bing, and he was accompanied by Platoon Leader Jiang Jin. Both men were quite skilled and had developed a close relationship with each other during their trip to Tengchong.
Zhou Xuan immediately realized that these people were sent by Li Lei, so he remained silent and let them do as they pleased. Li Wei, of course, knew that most of the people the old man sent were people he knew, and with the old man's help, it was naturally more effective than if they had acted alone.
Lin Guodong and the six men lying on the ground groaning in pain all pointed at Zhou Xuan and his group, repeatedly saying, "They're the ones who hit people! They're the ones who hit people!"
Zheng Bing coldly said, "Make your move. Drag them all to the car and take them back for interrogation."
His tone was like that of an undercover police officer, and his men were even more swift and efficient, each carrying one of the seven men—no lifting required—without any effort. They easily hoisted Lin Guodong and the others into the jeep. Zheng Bing then sent another car to take the old lady Jin Xiumei and Aunt Liu to the hospital first. Zhou Xuan had Fu Ying go with them, while he and Li Wei followed Zheng Bing's convoy. That damned Lin Guodong—the beating hadn't extinguished the anger in his heart.
Zheng Bing waved his hand, and the convoy set off, quickly disappearing into the traffic on the highway. Li Wei followed closely behind in his car, but the traffic police cars behind them stopped following, seemingly having received instructions.
Within seconds of Zheng Bing driving away, several more cars followed them.
Zheng Bing and his group drove towards the suburbs. After leaving the city, they headed into the dense forest mountains. They drove for about an hour before stopping at a wide area on a hilltop.
This place was extremely remote, and there was no one around for miles. Zheng Bing stopped the car and shouted, and more than a dozen of his men threw Lin Guodong and the other seven men off the car.
Li Wei, who was following behind, stopped his car and got out with Zhou Xuan to take a look. Two more cars were behind them. After they stopped, Zhou Xuan got out and saw Wei Haihong and several bodyguards. He immediately called out, "Brother Hong!"
Wei Haihong nodded. When he came over, the old man also came along. Later, it was inconvenient for him to show up, so he asked Old Li and another person to go back to the villa with the guards.
Wei Haihong waved his hand, and two bodyguards got out of the car carrying three suitcases. They walked up to Lin Guodong and said, "Your name is Lin Guodong, right?"
Lin Guodong and his group had already realized that something was wrong. Although they had made phone calls, one group of people after another arrived, but none of them were the ones they had called. These people looked unfriendly and might be difficult to deal with, so it was best not to suffer any losses now.
Lin Guodong nodded, then asked with some surprise, "You... how do you know my name is Lin Guodong?" He thought for a moment, then realized that he hadn't mentioned his own name at all.
However, Lin Guodong suddenly realized something, and his face lit up with joy. "I know, you're the people my dad sent, right? Quickly...quickly arrest them all, they're beating...beating..."
After saying a few words, Lin Guodong felt something was wrong. If Wei Haihong and the others were to take action, they would obviously not have enough manpower. There were only four of them, while Zhou Xuan and Zheng Bing's group had more than a dozen people. How could they catch them?
Wei Haihong said coldly, "Stop dreaming. Let me tell you, I know your background. Your father's name is Lin Yuefeng. A mere district finance bureau chief, and you're this arrogant? Just based on the results of educating you, your father is no good. Just wait until your father goes to jail."
Lin Guodong was stunned, completely confused about what was going on.
Wei Haihong then asked, "How much did your Ferrari cost?"
Lin Guodong was taken aback. Wei Haihong's questions were too abrupt, always catching him off guard. After a moment of realization, he finally answered, "Three million eight hundred thousand, and it's only... a new car that's only been bought for two months."