The person Jiu Ge personally sent to Lao Hu to talk to was named Mark. This man followed him when Lao Jiu first arrived in H City. No one knew where his hometown was. He was not in the company usually. In the gang, only He Wei and he met him twice in Zhejiang J. The others only heard that there was such a person around Jiu Ge, but they had never had any contact.

Mark is 1.82 meters tall, with a straight waist, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and is quite handsome, but he often habitually grows a beard, wears a baseball cap, and squints his eyes, so he looks a little old.

...

Three days after Mark finished talking with Brother Jiu, Lao Hu had just come out of the intensive care unit of the hospital. Although the wound on his body had recovered a little, he had lost weight and looked listless.

"...Don't worry, the guy who stabbed you was caught that day. He was in the detention center. I looked for someone and sentenced him." Xiao An was injured and wrapped in gauze. While eating oranges, he said softly.

"Yeah!" Old Hu nodded absent-mindedly.

"Di Lingling!"

At this moment, the ringtone of the eldest brother's cell phone rang, and Xiao An wiped his hands and stood up and handed it to Lao Hu.

"Hey, hello, who?"

"...I'm going to think that you have been hospitalized for four or five days. Why are you here? Let's talk about the work at the Night Market of Normal University?"

"Who are you?" Lao Hu asked with a frown.

"Haha, you don't know me!"

"If you don't know you, I'll talk to you about JB!" Lao Hu cursed.

"Call your home and see what your wife and children are doing at home!" Mark replied with a smile and hung up his phone directly.

"Hey? Hey?..." Lao Hu called out twice before he found that the other party had hung up.

"Who?" Xiao An asked on his own initiative.

"Fuck!" Lao Hu covered his abdomen, gritted his teeth and sat up behind him, and immediately called the landline at home, but it showed that it could not be connected.

"What's wrong?"

"Mom, Lao Jiu is playing with it." Lao Hu glared and cursed.

"Di Lingling!"

The phone ringing rang again, and Lao Hu answered it without hesitation.

"I'll wait for you for an hour in the back mountain. You can do it yourself if you come." Mark threw down his words and hung up the phone again.

...

Forty minutes later, Lao Hu ignored the doctor's dissuasion and led Xiao An and others to the back mountain with two handfuls. After the car stopped, everyone looked up and saw Mark standing next to the sign prohibiting littering on the mountainside with his hands in his pockets.

"Brother, please slow down..."

"Get up!" Old Hu was anxious and threw away the young man who was helping him, took out the sawed short * from his canvas pocket and rushed up.

"Haha!" Mark wore a baseball cap and stared at Lao Hu and others holding swords and guns, with a contemptuous smile on his face.

"Damn it, what are you going to do?" Old Hu stroked the bolt, gritted his teeth and asked Mark.

"I cut your phone line, but it's not moving." Mark replied with a smile.

Old Hu was stunned when he heard the sound.

"But if you can cut the phone line, you can be moving!" Mark stood on the steps, looking at Lao Hu from top to bottom, with his posture extremely relaxed.

"You brag, you dare to touch my wife and children, I will kill you and Lao Jiu!" Lao Hu pointed * at Mark's waist with a fierce look on his face.

"I will catch your wife tomorrow, you can kill me." Mark replied expressionlessly.

"…!" Old Hu's eyes widened when he heard the sound, holding the gun handle in his right hand, and for a moment he was at a loss.

"Do you dare? Do you dare to shoot?" Mark stretched out his right hand, poked Lao Hu's chest, and asked word by word.

Lao Hu's right hand trembled, his fingers rested on the cold trigger, he hesitated several times, but he didn't have the courage to pull it down several times. Xiao An and others behind him were facing Mark who had nothing in his hand at this moment, and none of them dared to interrupt, or were afraid of not being able to get out of the Taiwan Strait. Because they knew in their hearts that if Mark really asked them to shoot him and kill him, they would definitely not have the courage to kill someone if they pulled the trigger.

"You don't dare, I dare!" Mark pointed at Lao Hu and said softly again: "If you show off, I will kill you!!"

Lao Hu looked at Mark, who was relaxed and bearded, suddenly remembered that when he entered the detention center in 1995, he had lived with a bandit who had seven lives in his hands for half a month. The night before the execution, the man was still playing poker with other prisoners in prison to win cigarettes. When he was picked up by the armed police the next day, his expression on his face was like he was about to be released from prison. He smiled and took off his prison uniform, changed into a set of clean polyester pants, and walked out of the cell calmly.

Yes, the Mark standing in front of him made Lao Hu involuntarily think of the death row inmate, and he also clearly realized that he would definitely break his leg with a gun, but the other party might really dare to hit the head with a gun...

"Don't let me look for you again!" Mark paused for two seconds, reached out and patted Lao Hu on the shoulder, and walked towards the bottom of the mountain.

Lao Hu stood on the mountainside, looking at Mark's back, his cheeks were silent in a calm state.

...

One and a half hours later.

When Lao Hu returned to the hospital, he saw his wife and children. As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief, a captain of the municipal branch came over to sit in casual clothes for a while.

The two of them chatted for less than twenty minutes in total, but they didn't talk about any substantive topics. Until the captain left, they suddenly threw a sentence at Lao Hu: "...You have these two or three markets in your hands now, aren't you doing well?... Lao Hu, good things cannot all fall on one person. When you should give up, you can give up a little! If you are fighting with Wei Laojiu, you are injured, so I have to solve the case, but when you are fighting with others a few years ago, they are also injured. You said, can I solve the case?"

Old Hu was stunned when he heard the sound.

"Haha, keep it well, I'll leave first!" The captain smiled, reached out and pushed open the door.

"I know it!" Lao Hu was silent for a few seconds and replied in a low voice while sending it off.

"Haha! You are a human being, needless to say!" The captain nodded repeatedly with his hands behind his back.

...

A day later, when the police station where Shen Tianze and Jiang Guangnan were arrested, they came to the hospital to record confessions to Lao Hu, the other party refused to provide all information and did not admit that it was Jiang Guangnan who stabbed him. In this era, surveillance videos had not been fully popular, and the fighting in the vegetable warehouse had not been caught. All the people involved in the fight should have run away, so it was difficult for the police station to sort out any evidence.

Within two days, Shen Tianze and Jiang Guangnan changed from criminal to administrative, and each signed a fifteen-day detention letter. Brother Jiu did not do anything and specifically asked He Wei to send a new Santana sedan to Lao Hu.

At this point, Lao Hu completely withdrew from the night market at the Normal University, and later when he was drinking, he told his friends: "Brother, have you noticed? Now this society has changed. In the past, war relies on swords, but now war relies on fucking money! Lao Jiu is richer than me and has a stronger relationship than me, and can afford to hire a murderer! How can I fight him?"

Yes, when Mark appears, Brother Jiu is telling Lao Hu that you can’t do anything about playing social things; when the captain appears, he is also telling Lao Hu that you are the younger brother!

1998 is a node. While the social environment is progressing rapidly, all walks of life are also undergoing cruel elimination. The same is true for the mixed circle. They no longer try to beat the knife because of trivial matters. They begin to recognize money. They also learn from modern enterprises, making money in a fast, accurate and ruthless way, without fighting meaningless battles, without fighting money-free battles...

...

After squatting for fifteen days, Chen Tianze walked out of the detention center and returned to Fudu Hotel to meet Brother Jiu.
Chapter completed!