Chapter 181: All Stirred Up
Chapter 181: All Stirred Up
Xiao Cheng has moved out.
Same house, different rooms.
He left without hesitation, noncommittal.
In Bai Lu's heart, the vague and ambiguous thoughts that arose due to their overly friendly interaction over this period gradually extinguished in Xiao Cheng's indifferent silhouette.
It turns out she had overthought.
Big shots and kids are different.
Children cling because of drunkenness, their minds unclear, subconsciously seeking closeness to familiar and safe people.
But the unyielding big shot doesn't need that.
Since Li Chengbin's retreat from Xiao Village last time, he stayed quiet for a few days, and this afternoon, he sent people to overturn all the stalls selling candied chestnuts.
Except for Wu Xiuyun's stall in the town, none were spared.
Wang Cuihua and Yu Fugui, who were nearby, had already returned with their unsold chestnuts to find Bai Lu.
Those farther away, like Chen Dafu, Wu Fangli, and the Zhang Huiru couple, arrived not long after.
Xiao Cheng went to the city to handle the paperwork for opening a shop, Xiao Wei went to school, and only Bai Lu was at home.
After selling candied chestnuts for so long, everyone had established a steady customer base. Because each place had only one candied chestnut vendor, the business was very popular. Before the stalls were overturned, each vendor had only ten or twenty pounds of chestnuts left unsold.
All of them were placed in the yard.
All the bosses gathered in the main house, sat down, explained the situation to Bai Lu, and brainstormed solutions.
Those people, after overturning the stalls and smashing the fruit shop stands, issued a warning: no more selling candied chestnuts. If they did, they wouldn't even be allowed to sell fruit. Whether it's a fruit stand or a candied chestnut stand, they could only choose one.
Clearly, this is Li Chengbin's blatant and destructive strategy against candied chestnuts.
Wang Cuihua thought the solution was simple: "Just let Big Brother Xiao Cheng call someone to beat those people up. The tattooed men who overturned my stall were quite arrogant last time. After being taught a lesson, they became honest."
Thinking of this, Wang Cuihua could feel Xiao Cheng's immense and boundless sense of security. Her face turned shy and red.
Chen Dafu gave her a disdainful look. "I think you didn't use your brain when you went out! Can you compare that trivial matter last time with this serious matter? Do you think just because he can find someone, Li Chengbin can't? If things go wrong, the stalls might get sealed."
"Who does he think he is? He says seal, and it's sealed. Why don't you say he can seal all the shops in Pingcheng?" Wang Cuihua usually only paid attention to Xiao Cheng besides selling chestnuts and had no idea about Li Chengbin's background.
Chen Dafu looked at her as if she were a fool. "Long hair, short knowledge. You don't even know who Li Chengbin is, yet you dare to make suggestions here. You really know how to court death."
"He invited the big shots behind him. Apart from sealing the Pingcheng shops, your entire family might be sealed!" Wang Cuihua wanted to retort but, surrounded by sympathetic gazes, she gritted her teeth and remained silent.
Behind the forces of those with several sales channels, Bai Lu was not clear, so she asked, "Do you know who the forces behind are?"
There's no need to mention this side of the new town. With Xiao Cheng covering, Wu Xiuyun is still doing good business now and hasn't been affected.
Yu Fugui said, "In Pingcheng, it's Li Chengbin and Hu Biao. Hu Biao was beaten into the hospital the night before yesterday and hasn't come back since he was discharged yesterday afternoon. His group of little brothers saw Li Chengbin's people going beyond the bounds and smashing stalls but didn't care. I don't know if Hu Biao left any instructions before leaving."
Hu Biao went to the hospital because of Xiao Cheng. He must know about the candied chestnut matter and deliberately let it go.
Bai Lu was clear in her heart.
Wang Cuihua didn't know about the forces behind Dashizhen, only that she was overturned by the tattooed men last time, so she said straightforwardly, "Dashizhen has tattooed men."
Except for Wang Cuihua, everyone present knew that the forces behind Dashizhen were Li Chengbin's people.
Bai Lu also knew, so she didn't ask much.
Wu Fangli said, "Gaofeng Town is also Li Chengbin's people. Before selling chestnuts, there was an incident at the pier. Those people all went there. After that, they never came back. The ones who came back this time are all newcomers, and they targeted candied chestnuts first."
Zhang Huiru also said, "My husband and I opened a shop in Baicheng. Baicheng is also Li Chengbin's territory, but Li Chengbin rarely comes. The most frequent visitor is Li Chengbin's father-in-law's people."
Li Chengbin's father-in-law's people are all regular employees, while Li Chengbin's group consists of society people.
When to collect money and when to handle matters, the two sides are very clear, and the situation is clear at a glance.
There are already three sales channels, all backed by Li Chengbin, and the faces of everyone present gradually became serious.
Except for Bai Lu, who has remained calm since everyone entered the door, her gaze turned to Chen Dafu.
Chen Dafu's small town is farther away, but he has given out opening red envelopes, so he knows who is behind them: "I'm in Lewan Town, which is the territory of the big boss in the south market."
When the three words "big boss" were uttered, everyone looked at Chen Dafu at the same time, obviously very surprised.
What's surprising is not that the forces behind Lewan Town belong to the big boss, but why the big boss and Li Chengbin's father-in-law are not in conflict, and Li Chengbin's people still dare to go to Lewan Town to court death?
Why did the people of the big boss turn a blind eye to the dead enemies who crossed the line and caused trouble?
When Bai Lu cast a puzzled look at Chen Dafu, he explained: "The people of the big boss must have recognized Li Chengbin's people. Seeing Li Chengbin's people overturning stalls, they not only didn't care but also stood aside and watched the show."
"I don't know if it was instructed by the big boss or if it was the initiative of the people below. Knowing that candied chestnuts are related to you and Xiao Cheng, they deliberately let it go."
The dead enemy who was about to grab the territory could still endure this breath. It's clear that there's a mastermind behind it.
Bai Lu has read Xiao Cheng's memories and knows that the big boss values Xiao Cheng a lot. This time, he probably thinks that Xiao Cheng has been playing outside for too long and wants him to go back.
He doesn't take Xiao Cheng's withdrawal seriously.
The big boss doesn't value anyone, and he won't take it seriously even if he values someone. The way he wants Xiao Cheng to go back is to cut off all the ways Xiao Cheng can do business, making Xiao Cheng desperate and only able to go back to beg him.
Knowing that Xiao Cheng will suppress him tightly again after going back, Hu Biao probably doesn't want Xiao Cheng to go back.
But the grudge that has been suppressed by Xiao Cheng for a long time can't be swallowed, so he wants to quickly defeat Xiao Cheng in the nightclub, making Xiao Cheng kowtow to him.
On the one hand, he can save face and vent his anger, and on the other hand, he can make Xiao Cheng completely hate the big boss.
Because Hu Biao is the big boss's person, what he does represents the big boss's position. After Xiao Cheng knows it, he will definitely not go back.
Bai Lu's speculation was confirmed in the words of another person, who is Meng Youliang, who opened a shop in Xicheng.
Meng Youliang said, "Behind Xicheng is the big boss, and the situation is the same as Lewan Town."
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