Chapter 169: Boss Duan’s Troubles (2/2)

The Boss Duan had opened up a real estate company nearby.

It had a very grand name… however, it was simply involved in some minor outsourcing services.

Those services include: Demolition and the transportation of debris for the construction site.

These hoodlums of society specialized in the demolition business. Chen Xiaolian instantly understood what that meant.

He believed that there was a high chance that he had found it.

…

Truth be told, Boss Duan’s surname was not Duan.

Very few people knew what his surname was. ‘Boss Duan’ was actually a nickname. Due to his love for wuxia movies, it was said that he spent several years in the south as a dragon-tiger martial artist [1]. Ten years ago, he returned to Hangzhou and established this company with a group of people.

Due to his love for wuxia movies, in addition to his experience as a dragon-tiger martial artist, the people of the underworld gave him a nickname: First of the Four Evils.

It was a reference to Duan Yanqing, the ‘Overflowing Evil’ from ‘Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils’. It meant that his actions were more vicious compared to the Duan Yanqing from the novel [2].

His company was named ‘Goldenhorse Real Estate Development Company’. It was said that Boss Duan was born in the year of the horse. [3]

As for the company’s scope of operations… development of real estate was not possible as he simply do not possess that ability.

Their operations involved helping immoral developers to repossess or acquire property by threatening the residents and engaging in demolition activities. Thus, the men he hired were all the layabouts of society, the thugs and bullies.

Following his company’s growth, Boss Duan was able to develop his company. It was now in the building materials business.

Simply put, his company now supplied sand and cement to the construction site; and also transport debris away.

For this company to navigate its way within this business, most of the men he hired had crooked backgrounds.

From this perspective, Boss Duan’s business could be considered quite something.

Today, Boss Duan was feeling somewhat irritable.

He felt that he might have caused a problem.

Last night, he had been drinking all the way until dawn. Then, he inadvertently found out about something.

Among his group of men, there were two known as Little Cotton and Fertile Fatty.

The two of them work for his company. When intimidation work was necessary, he will send them out to commit those dirty tasks.

He found out that the two of them encountered an incident a few days back and were badly beaten up.

While drinking, he inquired about it and found out that a school brat had beaten up the two idiots; the school brat had also broken their wrists.

Truth be told, Boss Duan was not someone with a deep sense of solidarity.

However, he drank too much last night.

Having drunk too much, his desire to act like a boss from the pugilistic world rushed to the surface. He took it upon himself and exhibited a ‘who dares to bully this senior’s younger brother?’ attitude.

Back then, his underlings all gave him a huge applause and all of them praised Boss Duan for his righteous spirit.

Boss Duan got carried away and continued gulping down three cups of wine in succession.

In his state of inebriation, he instructed his men to go help the two fellows!

Naturally, he did not go with them. After he finished drinking, he went to his mistress’ house and slept with her.

When he woke up, he found out that those fellows had escalated the matter.

Those bunch of brain damaged idiots!

To teach a school brat a lesson, all you need to do is intimidate that fellow a little! After that, extort some money from him! Is that not wonderful?

You bunch of mindless idiots!

According to what he heard, the fellow that was beaten up was badly hurt and was knocked over by a car. Dead or alive – his current condition remained unknown. That was a huge problem from Boss Duan.

Considering his present level of connections, some small issues would not be too hard to settle. All that was needed to be done was to find the victim and intimidate him.

However, once someone died… then, the whole thing could no longer be covered up!

He had yet to have that much influence.

He regretted drinking too much last night, regretted trying to put on the airs of a boss, regretting saying too much.

Those who went along to exact vengeance were all drunk as well, causing the matter to blow up!

Boss Duan was throwing a fit in the company. Thankfully, those fools had the mind to run back instead of getting caught right there.

As for how to deal with this, Boss Duan already had a plan in mind. The two idiots, Little Cotton and Fertile Fatty would definitely be recognized. It would be difficult for them to run away. If the police came looking for them, then he could only pass the buck and have those two kicked out.

Boss Duan also had some assurances toward the possibility of this affecting his company.

He would figure out who the victims were and use the carrot and stick method to make sure the other party do not pursue this matter.

Fortunately, he did not join in last night and could distance himself from the issue.

If all else fails, I will just have to spend some more money or throw out those two fellows to act as scapegoats.

Son of a bitch! I really should cut down on drinking alcohol!

For the sake of two underlings worth less than fart, he had to deal with so much trouble. Later on, there may even be a need for him to spend money to settle the situation.

Isn’t this just asking for it?

Damn it, this senior had only held up the values of solidarity this once. It would appear that I would need to cut down on solidarity as well.

Boss Duan was throwing a fit at his underlings inside his company.

That was especially the case for Little Cotton and Fertile Fatty. They were forced down the ground and Boss Duan kicked them several times.

“Idiots! What is the point in stabbing someone? What is wrong with just extorting some money from them? You are just inviting trouble for me!”

At that moment, a loud sound suddenly rang out from the outside.

Crash!

It was the sound of glass being shattered.

…

Boss Duan’s company was located beside a construction site.

Beside a simple looking building was a row of dump trucks.

There were at least 30 people inside the building. Several pool tables were set up inside the first floor while some were in the corner playing poker. Some were putting down bets on the game.

Hearing the sound of glass shattering, Boss Duan was the first to rush out of his office. He went to stand by the fence on the second floor and looked down.

What he saw was a lean looking youngster standing beside the row of dump trucks.

He was wearing a loosely cut green and white striped uniform. In his hand was a hammer… it was likely he had helped himself to the hammer from the site.

The youngster stood beside the dump truck; he then raised his head and his gaze happened to meet Boss Duan’s.

The window of the dump truck beside the youngster had been shattered.

“Damn it!” Boss Duan was immediately infuriated. “Where did this little bastard come from? Son of a bitch! Are you people dead? Hurry up and go over there!”

Boss Duan. Raw: ‘段老大’, pinyin: ‘duàn lǎodà’. ‘duàn’ (段) means segment, ‘lǎodà’ (老大) means boss.

1. Dragon-tiger martial artists. Despite its grand name, it is actually the title for those people who act as minions in wuxia movies… basically, those people who cannot recognize Mt. Tai.

2. Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils is another famous wuxia novel by Jinyong/ Louis Cha. Duan Yanqing is one of the main villains in the novel.

3. Chinese people assign an animal to each year in a repeating twelve-year cycle.