Chapter 57 (1/2)
Chapter 57: Kidnapping
Ye Qian swept his eyes over Yang Wei and the officer on duty who were lying on the ground, then smiled. The prisoners in the cell looked at Ye Qian in astonishment, each one of them couldn't help holding up their thumbs in approval, blurting, “Grandpa, you’re really awesome. Even the police can’t match you.”
Ye Qian shrugged indifferently and said, “Do you guys want to leave or not? I’m leaving either way.”
Those prisoners were silent for a moment, then one of them said, “Grandpa, you go. Our crimes aren’t that heavy, if we stay for a few years we’ll be let out eventually. If we escape from prison we could be worse off.”
Ye Qian smiled indifferently. He understood the feelings of these big shots from Jianghu quite well. They used to be living the life but now they were in the detention facility, just waiting for their hearings in court. They would almostly certainly end up behind bars after their trials. They were no longer newly minted hooligans. They now understood well that the younger generation will replace the older generation, unlike those small hooligans, they no longer thought that coming out of prison would make you a gang boss. The younger generation did not have a sense of grat.i.tude and honour to the older generation. They were no longer masters of their own world. If they were to leave the prison there wouldn’t be many people outside who would help them willingly. Their former subordinates would be the very people who would want them dead. So it would be best to wait for their trial, serve their sentence and await release, then quietly live out the remainder of their lives.
After leaving the prison, Ye Qian made a phone call to Li Wei. This fellow was currently taking a nap behind a tree outside Zhao Ya’s villa. Once he received the call from Ye Qian, he instantly sobered up. Being a bodyguard was not for everybody. Li We would much rather set up an ambush in the jungle to deal with the enemy, he did not like holing himself up here to wait for the opponent to appear.
“You’ve been following me for so long, you must know the girl Xu Ya Ying right? I want to see her!” Ye Qian said.
Lei Wei’s interest was immediately piqued. He laughed mischievously and said, “No problem. Wait for my call.” As long as he could leave that place, even if he were asked to go into the National Security Bureau to kill the NSB chairman, he would do so without hesitation.
A few moments after Ye Qian left, Yang Wei and the officer on duty woke up. They saw that Ye Qian was gone, as expected, and couldn’t help but smile. Yang Wei turned to the remaining prisoners and said fiercely, “It’s best if you pretend you didn’t see anything tonight. Don’t speak of it. When your sentencing comes, this will be taken into account to lighten it, but if you don’t heed my words… you know what the consequences will be.”
These people used to be at the top of the world, they’ve never been spoken to this way. If a tiger descended into the plains it could also be bullied by the dog. Now they were lodged under somebody else’s roof, and had to give them face. Even if there was indignation in their hearts they could only swallow it down.
After locking the cell door, Yang Wei and the officer on duty left the detention center. “Everything is going according to plan. Murder suspect and now escapee. Even if he were originally innocent it would be hard for him to wash all this away,” The officer on duty said complacently.
Yang Wei smiled disdainfully and said, “The boss doesn’t want him to get a sentence, he wants his life. Tomorrow morning, all the police officers in the city will search for him, and once he’s found they will shoot him on the spot. Hmph, even if he had wings he’d have trouble escaping.”