Golden Scale [EN]: Chapter 136

The men from “East Star” and Tyrannosaurus Rex escorted Mai Zude outside the entertainment city. Hou Longtao kept apologizing to those bald men, and after a show of reluctant farewell, they returned to the banquet hall.

“What’s the beef between you and Hao Zhiyi?” Tyrannosaurus Rex tossed Hou Longtao a cigarette. “It can’t be just over a woman, right?”

“Godfather, you’re way off,” Situ Qingying leaned onto Hou Longtao, lighting his cigarette with a lighter. “He really is doing it all for a woman.”

“How could that be?” Tyrannosaurus Rex’s face darkened.

“I swore when I was seventeen,” Hou Longtao said, holding Situ Qingying’s hand, “that one day I would bury Hao Zhiyi. It’s just that I didn’t know his name was Hao Zhiyi back then, right, Long?”

“Yeah, if we had known where to find that brat back then, we would have broken his legs long ago. Would it have been his turn to play soccer?”

“So, you’re not planning to let it go?” Tyrannosaurus Rex stared at Hou Longtao with his sharp, eagle-like eyes.

“Of course not.”

“Then everything you promised Mai Zude was bullshit?”

“Not really,” Hou Longtao retorted. “He initially wanted me to let it go, but then he gave me three options. I’m just following his instructions, choosing one of them. I never said I would let Hao Zhiyi off the hook.”

“Hmph,” Tyrannosaurus Rex chuckled dismissively. “What’s the use of playing with words? You have to have the ability to take care of him.”

“Let’s not talk about ability. What do you think about me going against them? We need to be on the the same page first.”

“You don’t even understand your opponents.”

“We don’t,” Situ Qingying said, sitting sideways on Hou Longtao’s lap. “But you do, right? You wouldn’t keep secrets from us, would you?”

“Alright, I’ll tell you,” Tyrannosaurus Rex said, playing with his lighter. “It’s quite simple, actually. Building houses and roads, once you get involved with the government, it’s very profitable. That’s why they’re willing to invest heavily and have established solid relationships in Guangdong [a province in Southern China]. From the provincial party committee and government to the leadership of many counties and cities, they all have their protectors. Not to mention the police. If you want to take them down in Guangdong, it’s unlikely. At least, I don’t have the ability to do so.”

“If she could fall in love with me,” Hou Longtao said, hugging Situ Qingying’s waist and kissing her face, “then nothing is impossible. I just want to know which side you’re on.”

“You don’t know, but I’m from Guangdong,” Tyrannosaurus Rex didn’t answer directly. “My hometown is a small village in the suburbs of Guangzhou [the capital of Guangdong province]. There are only two surnames in the whole village, Mai and Shen. That Mai Zude and his boss, Mai Zuxian, are both from our village. Don’t let their names fool you; they are not related by blood. I grew up with them.”

“So, you’re childhood friends?” Fatty interjected. “Brother Long, we’re on the same side now. You can’t be biased.”

“What’s the rush?” Tyrannosaurus Rex glared at Fatty. “Mai is a common surname in Guangdong. People with the surname Mai account for 70% of our village.”

“And Shen is a northern surname, always regarded as outsiders. People with the two surnames are very unfriendly to each other, often fighting over trivial matters. It was the same between adults, and naturally the same between children. When I was eleven years old, Mai Zuxian saw me talking to a girl with the surname Mai and accused me of being a hooligan, beating me up with a few other older kids. From then on, they would find an excuse to beat me every time they saw me.”

“Damn, it seems like hooligans have always been the same,” Liu Nan laughed.

Tyrannosaurus Rex shrugged. “Mai Zuxian’s father was the village chief, and the Mai clan was large and powerful. Every time I got beaten, I hid it from my family. If there were any injuries on my face, I would just say it was a normal fight. More than a year later, my father died in a work-related accident. A year later, my mother remarried to a man with the surname Mai, hmph, Mai Zuxian’s uncle.”

This time, no one chimed in. Anyone would be furious if something like that happened to them.

Tyrannosaurus Rex took a deep drag on his cigarette. “I ran to Beijing. After a few years, when I had achieved some success, I went back to Guangdong to bring my good-for-nothing brother over. That was considered returning home in glory. Damn it, those bastards even dared to call me brother. I’ve always wanted revenge, so I still keep in touch with them from time to time, to know my enemy. I didn’t expect both sides to grow bigger and bigger, and I became less and less confident that I could take them down.”

“Let’s go home.” Hou Longtao put Situ Qingying down, stood up, and buttoned his suit jacket.

Mai Zude didn’t leave Beijing immediately. Instead, he returned to the accommodation that Tyrannosaurus Rex had arranged for them at the Xinjiekou Hotel. There were no trains or planes at this hour. His behavior with Hou Longtao earlier was just to test the other party’s sincerity in “turning enemies into friends.” In fact, these Guangdong people didn’t know the full extent of Hou Longtao’s connections. It’s no wonder, even Tyrannosaurus Rex didn’t know how extensive Hou Longtao’s relationships were, let alone them.

Around 11:00 PM, Hou Longtao, along with Long and the Xingyue sisters, arrived at the Xinjiekou Hotel and met Mai Zude in the karaoke room, presenting him with a gift of 300,000 yuan [approximately $42,000 USD] in cash.

After a show of “refusal,” Mai Zude naturally accepted the money. “Brother Hou, you’re too kind. I’m so embarrassed.”

“Let’s skip the pleasantries. I have some business I want to discuss with you,” Hou Longtao said, sitting next to Mai Zude, shielding his mouth with his hand as if it were a secret. “Your subordinates…”

“Oh,” Mai Zude waved his hand, signaling his men to take the girls out. He wasn’t worried that Hou Longtao would do anything to harm him here. “Just speak your mind.”

“You know what kind of business I’m in, right?”

“I know. Hehe, you want me to connect you with the Guangdong provincial government, right?”

Hou Longtao leaned back and clapped his hands. “As expected of a senior. What do you think?”

“Be specific.” Mai Zude wouldn’t do favors for nothing.

“Simple. The province will definitely want a share. Of the remaining profits from Guangdong, I’ll give your side half a share. As for how you and your boss split it,” Hou Longtao gestured in the air, “I don’t care.”

Mai Zude didn’t speak, pinching his chin in thought for a while. “How much is half a share?”

“Let’s be conservative. Guangdong has ten million motor vehicles. The profit every three years is five billion. The province taking 40% is my bottom line, which means my side makes ten billion each year. You can get fifty million each year. Does that sound reasonable?”

After hearing that number, Mai Zude was stunned for a long time. Several minutes later, he swallowed hard and patted Hou Longtao on the shoulder. “You’re a big-time businessman. I knew you weren’t ordinary.”

“So, you agree?”

“No one would refuse.”

“Great, it’s settled then. But I’m leaving for Germany soon,” Hou Longtao stood up. “If you can get things done, let me know in a month and a half, okay?”

“Of course.” Mai Zude stood up and shook hands with him. “Leaving so soon? Stay and have some fun. There are plenty of nice girls here.”

“Hahaha,” Hou Longtao turned his head and glanced at the Xingyue sisters. “I don’t think that’s necessary, right?”

“Oh, oh, oh, okay, then I won’t keep you.” Mai Zude finally realized that those two “female assassins” were Hou Longtao’s concubines.

Hou Longtao and the other three got into the S600 and left the Xinjiekou Hotel.

“Fourth Brother, are you going to take them down, or are you going to cooperate with them?” Long was a little confused about Hou Longtao’s intentions.

“Of course, I’m going to take them down.” Hou Longtao had a sinister smile on his face.

“Then what was that just now?”

“Giving them that 300,000 yuan. Although he thinks I promised not to bother Hao Zhiyi anymore during dinner, I don’t think he’ll believe me so easily. If I don’t send money to show my sincerity, he might stay in Beijing and monitor my every move. Guangdong will probably strengthen their defenses too.”

“But if you send money, it will seem a little too eager and still arouse suspicion, right?” Long looked enlightened.

“Hehehe,” Hou Longtao smiled and nodded. “You’re getting good at this. Keep going.”

“You just threw out a deal where you can earn 950 million each year, and you need them to connect you. There’s no reason for him not to believe you. Plus that fifty million, he’ll treat you like his own brother. No one would throw away ten billion for a woman’s old grudge from ten years ago.”

Hou Longtao leaned his head back on the headrest and closed his eyes. “No one would?”

“Damn, except for you. But I think that old bastard really wants to cooperate. He can really pave the way for us to enter Guangdong. Taking them down, that’s ten billion a year. Don’t you think it’s a pity?”

“Money? With the money you’re making now, you, your son, and your grandson can’t spend it all in your lifetimes. We’re just playing a numbers game now. He dared to bully my beloved girl. I’ll make him regret it, even if it costs me everything.”

The two girls in the front seat smiled at each other. They knew that what he said about his beloved girl also applied to them.

Long nodded. “Then let’s take him down.”

“Hmph,” Hou Longtao sat up. “That ten billion shouldn’t get away.”

“How so?”

“I’m eager for revenge now, so I want to take down the Guangdong officials as well. But that requires asking for help.

If I can’t do that, I’ll really do business with Mai Zude. Will they squeeze more money out of Hao Zhiyi than I can give them?” Hou Longtao glared. “If they insist on protecting that brat, who will the Guangdong officials choose, me or them? As long as they choose me, a few gangsters won’t be hard to deal with.”

“If you succeed in asking for help, we’ll have a big game to play.”

“If I succeed in asking for help, it won’t even be our turn to play.” Hou Longtao shrugged.

The next morning, Hou Longtao visited Gu Quanzhi at Evergreen Group, and in the afternoon, he talked to Feng Yun.

A week later, Feng Yun gave a reply first. A day later, Gu Quanzhi also responded, both telling Hou Longtao that he didn’t need to intervene anymore.

On the afternoon of January 15th, Hou Longtao, along with Ru Yan and the Xingyue sisters, appeared at Munich Airport in Germany. They were accompanied by representatives from the German Dengxing Company, who had come to Beijing specifically to pick them up.

The vice president of Dengxing Company came to pick them up at the airport, which showed how much they valued him.

Hou Longtao introduced the three beauties. The vice president had already noticed the three celestial-like oriental women. Now, hearing their identities, it was understandable that Ru Yan was his secretary, but he couldn’t believe that the remaining two identical twins were bodyguards.

Hou Longtao was arranged to stay in the most luxurious five-star hotel in Munich, in the presidential suite. In addition to the Rolls-Royce that the hotel provided for the presidential suite, Dengxing Company also provided two S600s for his use, plus a professional tour guide named Susan.

For the first four days of the five-day trip, Hou Longtao was free to do as he pleased. Only the last day was for a meeting with the members of the Dengxing Company’s board of directors.

Munich itself is a tourist city. After resting for one night, Hou Longtao and his group couldn’t wait to start sightseeing. He wasn’t particularly interested, but his wives loved to play.

The group first went to the City Hall, then to Marienplatz [a central square in Munich], and third to the Gothic-style Frauenkirche [Cathedral Church of Our Lady]. Outside the church, Susan used English to introduce the two 98 and 100-foot-high towers to everyone.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd not far away. Someone was shouting loudly, the sound getting closer and closer, heading towards them.

“Catch him, it’s Russian,” Zhi Ji said to Hou Longtao.

The crowd in the distance parted to both sides. A bald young man in a leather outfit stumbled out, clutching a woman’s brown shoulder bag. The strap of the bag was broken. Twenty meters behind him, two men and a woman were chasing after him. Judging by their speed, they had little hope of catching him. It was clearly a case of robbery in broad daylight.

“Do you want to help?” Hui Ji asked for instructions.

Before Hou Longtao could answer, the bald young man had already run in front of him. Without saying a word, he suddenly threw a punch, hitting the man squarely in the face from the side. He really put his strength into it. The other party wasn’t prepared, and with his speed, he was knocked three or four meters sideways.

The bald man was actually very thin and weak, obviously a drug addict. After taking that punch, he didn’t get up again.

The two men behind him took the opportunity to catch up. They were both burly Russians with buzz cuts, looking exactly like the Russian gangsters in movies.

“Let’s go,” Hou Longtao turned around and pointed to one of the towers. “Let’s go up and take a look.” He didn’t take what had just happened to heart at all.

“Thank you.” A woman’s voice rang out from behind.

Hou Longtao turned back again, secretly surprised. Standing in front of him was a beautiful blonde woman with a well-proportioned figure. But what surprised him wasn’t the woman’s beauty, but her height. She must have been at least 1.9 meters tall [approximately 6 feet 3 inches], and with high heels, she was a head taller than him. This was the first time he had to look up at a woman when he wasn’t being intimate. “My… my pleasure.” The words he had prepared before turning around didn’t come out smoothly.

“Thank you.” The woman extended her hand.

“You’re welcome.” Hou Longtao shook the woman’s hand and was about to turn away again.

“My name is Marry.”

“Hou Longtao.” Hou Longtao had to say another sentence.

At this time, a police car had already arrived. As two policemen were pulling the bald man into the car, he shouted a few words in German at Hou Longtao.

Marry and the two burly men didn’t seem to want to get involved with the police and quickly disappeared into the crowd.

“What did that guy shout?” Hou Longtao asked Zhi Ji.

“It wasn’t anything good.”

“Tell me.”

“He said you’re a yellow pig and he won’t let you go.”

“Hmph, damn neo-Nazi.” Hou Longtao curled his lips.

“Without that Marry testifying, he’ll be released soon.”

“Bring it on.” Hou Longtao flicked his coat and struck a pose. He wasn’t really afraid because he knew that guy had no way of finding him.

That evening, Susan drove the S600, carrying the four Chinese people to the Alps. They would spend the night in a villa at the foot of the mountain and go skiing the next morning.

At around 9:00 PM, four women and five men were sitting around in the large living room on the first floor, chatting. The lights in the room were off, and the only light came from the roaring fire in the fireplace, casting an orange glow over the spacious room.

Hou Longtao and Ru Yan were sitting on the large sofa in front. He bent down, grabbed one of the woman’s legs, pulled it onto his lap, took off her white cotton sock, held her soft foot, and gently stroked and kneaded it.

Ru Yan obediently turned around, tilting her head to look at the man.

Hou Longtao played with his beloved wife’s beautiful feet for a while, then noticed that hazy look in her eyes. “Susan, it’s time for bed.”

“What?” Susan was adding wood to the fireplace. She glanced at her watch. “So early?”

“Come here,” Hou Longtao pulled Susan to the staircase. “I want to have sex with my secretary in front of the fireplace. My bodyguards will also join in. Do you understand what I’m saying? Unless you want to watch or join in too.”

“No… no need.” Susan raised her left hand, showing off her wedding ring, and turned upstairs. In her impression, oriental people were relatively reserved. She didn’t expect to meet someone so blunt today.

Hou Longtao returned to the sofa, put his arm around Ru Yan’s shoulder, and kissed her mouth while reaching into her short sweater with his left hand, grabbing and kneading her full breasts through her tight-fitting underwear.

“Brother…” Ru Yan squinted her almond eyes, wrapped her arms around the man’s neck, and sucked on his tongue. “Good brother… quickly… quickly come inside me, okay? I… I want you inside my… my body… Brother… I want to become one with you… Brother…”

Hou Longtao knew that his beloved wife was influenced by the romantic atmosphere and had drunk a little wine earlier, which was why she was so impatient now. But she must really want him too. “Good girl, whatever you want, brother will grant it.” As he spoke, he took off the beauty’s sweater and underwear together.

Ru Yan held her breasts with both hands. The nipples under the transparent bra were already hard and erect. “Brother… they all miss you so much…”

Hou Longtao looked at his beloved wife’s beautiful and captivating face illuminated by the firelight, and felt his mouth go dry. “Baby, are you a little drunk?”

“Brother…” Ru Yan didn’t answer the man’s question at all. She directly started pulling at his clothes, leaning over to kiss his lips. “Brother… I want you… Brother… I want you…”

With his beloved wife begging him so softly, Hou Longtao was having a little trouble breathing. He stood up and tore open his shirt, revealing his muscular body.

“Brother…” Ru Yan also stood up, hugged the man’s waist, bent slightly, and pressed her warm cheek against his firm chest.

Hou Longtao used his fingers to lift the beauty’s chin, raising her head.

Ru Yan closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling slightly, her mouth slightly open, with a crystal tear hanging from the corner of her eye, like a girl’s expression during her first kiss.

Hou Longtao brought his mouth closer and gently sucked on his beloved wife’s fragrant lips. “Baby, I love you, I love you so much…”

“Brother…” Ru Yan hugged the man’s neck tightly, resting her head on his shoulder. Just being held by him like this made her feel so happy. She didn’t know how to describe her love for him.

The two of them stood embracing each other in front of the sofa, not speaking, not moving, as if just being so close together was enough.

The Xingyue sisters had been sitting on the side watching this couple being lovey-dovey, like watching a movie. They were also moved by what they saw, but suddenly it froze, which was really frustrating.

The sisters looked at each other, stood up together, Zhi Ji walked behind Hou Longtao, Hui Ji walked behind Ru Yan, and the two of them squatted down at the same time, reaching between the two of them and starting to take off their pants. If it had been two or three months ago, the Xingyue sisters would never have dared to be so presumptuous with Hou Longtao. Their respect for their master was unconditional and absolute, but at the same time, they were also women, whether they were “produced” by Honda or not, they were women.

When a woman is loved and spoiled by her beloved man for a while, her behavior in front of that man will become more and more bold. The Xingyue sisters were like this. They no longer had fear of Hou Longtao, only loyalty and love. They knew that he would not lose his temper with them. In fact, he had never lost his temper with any of his beloved concubines.

Hou Longtao looked down at Zhi Ji’s jade hands unbuckling his belt, smiled slightly, kissed Ru Yan’s cheek, “It’s getting too hot.”

Ru Yan took her feet out of the pants and underwear that had been pulled down to her ankles, took a step back diagonally, shyly lowering her eyes, her face covered with rosy clouds and a sweet smile. “I didn’t make them wait.”

Hou Longtao reached behind him, gently patted Zhi Ji’s cheek, then “stepped out” of his pants, turned around and sat on the sofa, glanced at his erect penis, and began to admire Ru Yan’s perfect body, those two snow-white and slender legs were even smoother and more delicate than jade sculptures.

Ru Yan’s full breasts rose and fell faster as her breathing quickened. She came in front of the man, straddled his waist, held his face, and kissed him on the lips. “Brother… give it to me…”

“Are you ready?” Hou Longtao opened his mouth and sucked on one of the “cherries” in front of him, reaching down to touch the woman’s delicate vulva. He was originally afraid that she wouldn’t be wet enough because she didn’t have enough foreplay, but what he touched was wet with love fluid… (This guy is insatiable).