Golden Scale [EN]: Chapter 128

Hou Longtao knocked on the window of the Passat and beckoned to the driver.

With five fierce-looking thugs outside, two of them brandishing long steering wheel locks, only a fool would get out. But the Passat driver didn’t seem particularly scared, even though he was alone in the car. He rolled down the window and retorted, “What do you want?”

“Get out.”

“Why should I get out? What do you want?”

“You talk pretty tough.”

“Move your car.”

“I’ll f**k your mother!” Hou Longtao suddenly reached into the car, grabbed the driver’s hair, and slammed his head against the steering wheel several times.

Wu Da also reached into the car, opened the door from the inside, and together with Hou Longtao, dragged out the dazed driver, his forehead covered in blood.

“Do… do you know who I am? Do you know… whose car this is?”

“You’re still talking sh*t.” Er Dezi stepped forward and punched him right in the nose, then another punch, and another. After four blows, his face was covered in blood, and his nose was definitely broken.

“Whose f**king car is this?” Long swung the steering wheel lock and smashed the left rear window of the Passat with a “clang,” then smashed it again on the trunk lid.

“Ah… ah…” The driver couldn’t open his eyes, but his ears still worked. The injuries weren’t so severe that he couldn’t speak. “You… you just wait, it’s not over!”

“F**k, threatening me?” Liu Nan gripped the steering wheel lock with both hands, like a spear, and thrust it hard into the driver’s abdomen.

Hou Longtao and Wu Da let go, and the driver immediately knelt down, clutching his stomach, his mouth wide open, making a “huh-huh” sound, blood dripping onto the ground.

At this moment, Da Pang’er rushed forward, without stopping, squeezed between Hou Longtao and Wu Da, and kicked the driver in the back.

“Ah…” The driver screamed and fell to the ground. Da Pang’er had used all his strength, kicking him a meter across the ground.

The brothers, none of them holding back, went up and started “stomping” on the driver until Zhao Rui leaned out of the car, impatiently urging them to hurry up.

Ma Lian drove the police car back, slowing down as he approached the Passat, driving into the oncoming lane, rolled down the window and spat at the driver lying on the ground. “You motherf**ker, if you’re so tough, come to ‘Fu Lu Shou’ [a common name for establishments, implying longevity and prosperity] to find us. We’ll f**k you up.”

The eight of them arrived at the Fu Lu Shou resort. The villa they had booked was right next to the wall. They didn’t do much all afternoon, just played billiards, ping-pong, and a few rounds of mahjong.

For dinner, the group drove to the main building’s restaurant in the center of the resort and asked for a private room. The waiter brought up homemade fruit wine, explicitly telling them that the wine was sweet and tasted like ordinary juice, but it had quite a kick.

Hou Longtao usually didn’t drink at all, but since it was a send-off for him, he had to at least show some respect. He took a sip and, finding no taste of alcohol, dismissed the waiter’s warning.

The meal was almost over, and the alcohol was starting to take effect on several people. They started talking about what happened in the afternoon, and everyone was in high spirits.

It had indeed been a long time since they had fought. Except for Long, the rest of them were over twenty and wanted to act like adults, not resorting to thuggery at the drop of a hat. Plus, no one had been provoking them. But in their hearts, they still saw street violence as heroic behavior, feeling that without fighting, without using force to solve problems, how could they be considered men? Little did they know that this kind of thinking was only for the most immature boys.

“I swear, my spit landed right on the back of his head.”

“Stop talking sh*t, you didn’t even stop the car, how could you be so accurate?”

“Really.”

“Really my ass, another couple of sentences and you’ll really spit it out.”

“F**k,” Liu Nan slammed the table. “Stop talking nonsense, let’s find some girls to play with, my treat.”

“What are you saying!?” Zhao Rui was the first to object.

“They can go, I’m not going. I’m going to f**k you tonight.”

“Hahahaha.” Amidst the laughter of the group, Da Pang’er pulled Er Dezi out the door. “We’ll go scout ahead, and call you if we find anything good.”

The others continued to drink and chat, but after more than half an hour, the “scouts” still hadn’t sent back any information, and their phones couldn’t be reached.

“Could something have happened?” Hou Longtao stood up, immediately feeling like he was walking on cotton. “Let’s pay the bill and go check it out.”

The six of them asked for directions and, after leaving the main building, went around to the back of the bath center. They walked through a corridor filled with steel and cement and arrived at the bath center’s lounge. The furniture was decent, but the walls were dilapidated, and the renovation was clearly unfinished. There was no one else there, not even a waiter.

Da Pang’er was sitting on a lounge chair, holding a woman in a white shirt and black skirt. The woman had a disc with the number “7” pinned to her clothes. Er Dezi was sitting on the side, catching his breath.

“Fifth Brother, why can’t I get through to your phone?” Long handed a cigarette to Er Dezi.

“There’s no signal here.” Er Dezi tugged at the collar of his shirt.

“Yo!” Long noticed a tear at the collar of Er Dezi’s shirt. “What happened?”

“We got into a fight with the security guards.”

“What happened!?” Everyone gathered around.

“As soon as we got here, Da Ge [Big Brother, term of respect] saw a chick and wanted to take her out. Guess what? That b*tch looked at Da Ge and refused to come out.”

“I swear, you’re losing face.” Ma Lian patted Da Pang’er on the shoulder.

“Get lost.” Da Pang’er replied irritably.

“I wasn’t having it,” Er Dezi gestured wildly. “I’ve been playing around for so many years, and I’ve never seen anyone dare to refuse. I grabbed that b*tch by the neck and dragged her out. Motherf**ker, daring to not let Da Ge play with her.”

“Is this her?” Hou Longtao walked up to Da Pang’er and lifted the woman’s chin. Her looks were just average.

“It wasn’t her, that slut ran away. Before long, she brought a security guard, who was her boyfriend. So what if she’s my girlfriend? Even if your mother is selling herself, she has to follow the rules.”

“That son of a b*tch came up and tore my clothes, ripped my collar. I slapped him so hard his face flew. The son of a b*tch went to get people.”

“F**k, those security guards are so tough!”

“Then let’s just wait for them.”

“F**k those bastards.”

“Stop yelling,” Er Dezi glanced at his watch. “It’s been almost twenty minutes. Let’s just do what we came to do. I’ll take you to pick out some girls.”

They didn’t know that Hou Longtao had never been with a prostitute before. He hated prostitutes, he hated all women who put a price on their bodies, whether it was for money, a green card, or a promotion. But tonight, everyone was looking for girls, and he was drunk, so he forgot about his principles.

The group entered a dark corridor at the back of the lounge, opened a wooden door at the end, and found more than twenty women in white shirts and black skirts, lying or sitting inside. They each picked one, but to be honest, there wasn’t much good stuff.

The one Hou Longtao found was called Liu Ying. She was tall and, at least, not unpleasant to look at.

The brothers returned to the lounge, just as they got back to the villa, a man in a suit walked in. “Gentlemen, did you have a conflict with our security guards earlier?”

“Who are you?”

“I’m the on-duty manager here, Ouyang Shuang.”

“You came at the right time,” Er Dezi jumped out. “Your security guard tore my clothes, what are you going to do about it? Are you trying to shut down your business?”

“What do you want?”

“Of course, you have to compensate me. My clothes aren’t expensive, just give me a hundred yuan.”

“Sir, it’s not about your compensation now. You injured our female server, and the medical expenses and lost wages will be about a thousand yuan. I think you should give me the money now.” Ouyang Shuang was furious, but he clearly wasn’t trying to solve the problem, but had already decided on the method of solving it.

“Are you trying to extort us?” Wu Da, who had shaved his head and looked a bit older, looked like an old gangster.

“I’m completely thinking of you. They originally wanted two thousand, but I worked for a long time to bring the price down.”

“Who are ‘they’?”

“That female server is a security guard’s girlfriend. Our entire security team is outside. If I hadn’t stopped them in time, they would have rushed in.”

“Motherf**ker, let them in.” Da Pang’er, who had been holding back his anger, hadn’t vented it yet. “No, don’t let them in. I’ll go out, I want to see who dares to stop me.”

“It’s not good to be so agitated. There are more than twenty security guards outside, and they have electric batons. If you’re so impulsive, you’ll definitely suffer.”

“Hahaha,” Da Pang’er picked up an iron bar from the side of the wall. “Who are you trying to scare!?”

“Why is it taking so long?” A fat man in slippers, shorts, and a white tank top walked in from outside, waving a large fan. His tone was very impatient. “Ouyang Shuang, have you negotiated yet?”

“This is Yi Feng, the security director,” Ouyang Shuang shrugged at Hou Longtao and the others, as if he had done his best and everything was their own fault. “You can talk to him yourselves.” He finished speaking and left.

“What do you want?” Da Pang’er poked Yi Feng in the face.

“Hey, hey, hey,” Yi Feng had the kind and friendly expression that fat people often have. “It’s no use being fierce with me. It’s my brothers who won’t let you off. Let me tell you this, if you don’t pay up today, you’re not going anywhere. Those four cars outside are yours, right? My people are watching them. If you don’t pay, we’ll smash them.”

“Scaring me?” Ma Lian frowned. “That’s a police car, try smashing it.”

“Hehe, then I won’t say anything more,” Yi Feng turned to leave, holding up two fingers and crossing them. “Ten minutes, you’re responsible for the consequences if you don’t pay.”

“Damn it, are they really treating us like pushovers?” Hou Longtao also found a steel bar and wrapped a towel around it. “Let’s f**k them up.”

The others also started looking for handy weapons, putting their phones, watches, wallets, necklaces, and rings into Zhao Rui’s bag. The prostitutes had already slipped away at some point.

Ma Lian took the lead and rushed out. If they really smashed his car, his old man at home wouldn’t spare him.

“What are you doing?” Ouyang Shuang stopped the group in the lobby.

“Get lost!” Ma Lian pointed the bar at Ouyang Shuang’s nose. He didn’t want to fight inside the building. He knew there were a lot of them. If he attacked now, they would definitely rush in, and it would be difficult for them to rush out, let alone get close to their cars. The most urgent thing now was to drive the cars away.

“Look, look,” Ouyang Shuang turned to the side and pointed to the dark mass of people outside the glass door. Blue lights flashed from time to time on their legs, obviously the electric batons were sparking. “What good will it do you to go out? They’re a bunch of uneducated old farmers who only know how to swing hoes at home. They don’t know how to hold back. You’re all young masters from Beijing. Is killing a few of them worth your lives?”

Ma Lian lowered his arm. What the other party said made too much sense, and he also thought of Hou Longtao. Fourth Brother was going to get on a plane the day after tomorrow, and it wouldn’t be worth it if something happened at this time.

“Then what do we do?” Liu Nan came over.

“One thousand.” Ouyang Shuang was talking to Liu Nan. He had already figured out that this guy was the “sugar daddy” of the group.

“Dream on!” Long flung his arm. “Are you treating us like idiots? If he wants that much, we’ll just give him that much? What kind of reputation would we have!?”

“I’ll be straight with you,” Ouyang Shuang didn’t even look at Long, still talking to Liu Nan. “I can’t control those security guards. They’re all Yi Feng’s people. That guy relies on his brother being the deputy captain of the Shanshi Chemical Plant’s security team and has caused a lot of trouble here. There’s really no benefit to going against him here. How about this, you give me eight hundred, and I’ll take it to them. That should be fine. Weren’t you going to take six girls with you? I can take care of their matter. The original price for going out was five hundred, but now you only need to give four hundred each, saving six hundred from them, which is equal to giving Yi Feng two hundred. Just consider it me making friends with you.”

“Let’s do it this way.” Liu Nan took out eight hundred-yuan bills from his wallet. He was the least willing to fight among these people, no wonder, he had his girlfriend with him.

Ouyang Shuang left and returned in about five minutes. The people outside had also dispersed.

“Alright.”

“Then why don’t you call the girls out?” Some of the people had sobered up a bit. If they weren’t going to fight, then they’d just f**k.

In a little while, more than twenty girls lined up in two rows in the lobby.

Hou Longtao didn’t pick again and directly called Liu Ying out again. He hadn’t said anything for a long time because he was feeling terrible. He had a heatstroke, which was the worst, and he seemed to have a fever from the wind.

They parked the car at the entrance of the villa. Liu Nan called a few brothers to his side. “Ouyang Shuang told me that four hundred isn’t for the whole night, just two hours. A car will come to pick these girls up later.”

“Motherf**ker, are you kidding me? In Beijing, it’s only four hundred for the whole night, what kind of high-end place is this?”

“Alright, stop talking so much nonsense, anyway, I’m the one paying.”

Hou Longtao returned to his room on the second floor facing the courtyard, lay down on the bed. It was the first time he had paid for a woman, and he was really a bit at a loss.

Liu Ying was a professional. She closed the door and took off her shirt and skirt, took out two condoms from her bra and threw them on the bed, then started to take off her bra and panties.

Hou Longtao felt that the atmosphere was particularly bad. To start doing it like this was no different from animal mating. “Why did you run away earlier?”

“It was so scary, I thought you were going to fight.” Liu Ying started to take off the man’s pants. If people wanted to chat, she naturally had to accompany them.

“Am I scary?”

“Not you, your friends are scary enough. Except for you, you look quite refined.”

“Hehehe.” Hou Longtao never thought that he would be praised like this by a prostitute. “This is my first time.”

“Liar.” Liu Ying laughed.

“This is the first time I’ve played outside, not the first time I’ve f**ked.”

“There’s no difference.” Liu Ying took off the man’s underwear and started stroking his limp penis.

Hou Longtao had already done it three times in twenty-four hours. He was also sick and drunk. Now lying on the bed, his body felt like it was falling apart. Plus, he didn’t really want to f**k, so he couldn’t get hard for a long time.

“What’s wrong with you? Are you already failing at such a young age?” Liu Ying’s forehead was sweating, but there was no sarcasm in her tone. She probably encountered this a lot.

“Try using your mouth.” Hou Longtao was a little embarrassed.

“No, we have rules.”

“What rules?”

“We can’t use our mouths. Think about it, if everyone wanted to use their mouths, wouldn’t it be dirty?”

“Hmm,” Hou Longtao thought it made sense. “Then let me touch your p*ssy.”

“Rules…”

“I know, I know, if everyone wanted to touch, it would be so dirty.”

“What do we do now?”

“Let’s not do it,” Hou Longtao was almost dying of discomfort. “Let’s chat for a while, where are you from?”

“Sichuan.” Liu Ying was hoping that the other party wouldn’t do it anyway, since she had already received the money, these four hundred yuan were easy to earn.

The two chatted for more than an hour, the man wrapped in the quilt, his face looking like he was about to die, the woman kneeling on the bed.

“Let’s just say we’ve met today. Next time, when I’m not sick, I’ll come find you again and let you know how awesome I am.” Hou Longtao didn’t plan to come again, but he was trying to save face.

“Okay.”

“Don’t tell anyone about this today.”

“No problem, I won’t tell anyone.”

Someone knocked on the door, and another prostitute poked her head in. “Liu Ying, it’s time to go, the car is almost here.”

After the woman left, Er Dezi came to Hou Longtao’s room. “You’re acting like you’re having such a great time?”

“Having a great time my ass,” Hou Longtao opened his eyes in pain. “They won’t give me head, and they won’t let me touch.”

“What do you mean?”

“There are rules, no head, no touching.”

“Go f**k yourself,” Er Dezi almost spat out his snot. “What f**king rules, did you get played? They’re just prostitutes, not phoenixes, why wouldn’t they let you touch? I almost f**ked my girl to death just now. Although they usually wear condoms when giving head, I’ve never heard of them not giving head. Oh well, it doesn’t matter, as long as you f**k.”

“Yes, yes.” Hou Longtao was cursing in his heart, but he really didn’t have the energy to argue. “Help me turn off the air conditioner, open the window, the blowing is making me uncomfortable.”

“Okay.” Er Dezi went over and opened the window, and a burst of women’s laughter and conversation floated in.

“These guys today are alright, they’re all young, better than those old geezers in their thirties and forties.”

“Tch, we charged them a hundred less each.”

“Alright, you’ve been doing this for so long, how many orgasms have you had?”

“I didn’t lose anything,” this was Liu Ying’s voice. “Mine was playing outside for the first time, he just chatted with me for a long time and didn’t do anything.”

“Which one?”

“The tall one with glasses.”

Er Dezi turned back in surprise, looking at Hou Longtao’s pale face.

“Really? Didn’t you try his skills?”

“What’s there to try? He couldn’t even get it up, he’s impotent.”

“Really? He looks pretty strong.”

“What’s the use of that? All the meat has grown somewhere else.”

“Hahaha…”

“You slut!” Hou Longtao jumped out of bed, this kind of insult was unbearable for any man. He staggered as he put on his pants. “Don’t let them leave!”

“Forget it, forget it,” Er Dezi pushed Hou Longtao back onto the bed. “Forget it.”

“Forget your ancestors!” Hou Longtao pushed Er Dezi away, putting on his clothes as he rushed out.

Da Pang’er and the others were playing mahjong in the hall on the first floor. Seeing Fourth and Fifth Brothers rushing out, they quickly followed.

Hou Longtao pushed aside two prostitutes and grabbed Liu Ying by the collar. “Slap, slap” he gave her two big slaps.

“What are you doing? What are you doing?” The other prostitutes were about to go up and stop him, but they were shouted back by Da Pang’er and the others.

“Motherf**king b*tch! Did I give you face!?” Hou Longtao cursed as he hit her. He was hitting hard, knocking out Liu Ying’s teeth. “You slut, I’ll teach you to have a loose mouth!”

A beige van stopped, it should be the one to pick up the prostitutes.

“What’s going on!? Why are you hitting people? Talk nicely.” Ouyang Shuang jumped out of the car and grabbed Hou Longtao’s arm.

“Motherf**king eyes!” Hou Longtao was angry at whoever pulled him, and kicked Ouyang Shuang in the stomach.

Ouyang Shuang got up from the ground and rushed over again. “You don’t want to live anymore!?”

This time, Da Pang’er and the others couldn’t just watch. They went up and held Ouyang Shuang down, and a beating was inevitable.

“If you can’t do it yourself, blame others, if you have the ability, get an erection.” Someone in the group of prostitutes said.

“Who is it!?” Hou Longtao threw away Liu Ying, who had fainted, and stared fiercely at the remaining prostitutes, his eyes red. “Who was it!? Say it again!”

A commotion came from not far away, and four or five disheveled men ran towards them. It was already past 12:00 at night, they were probably the security guards who had just been called up. The driver of the van probably saw the fight outside and called for people.

“What’s going on? Why are you fighting?”

“Don’t talk nonsense with them!” Ouyang Shuang, who was lying on the ground, shouted, “Take them all down, don’t let any of them run away!”

Da Pang’er and the others knew that a full-scale conflict was unavoidable, so they simply took the initiative and launched an attack on the security guards.

These security guards were really tough. One of them was punched by Da Pang’er but immediately got up again, forming a one-on-one fight. And these security guards were also very ruthless, as if beating people from the city could bring them supreme enjoyment…