Pampered by Short-Lived Bigshot

Originally, Tang Wan was supposed to pick up the child from kindergarten, but she received a call from the police station, probably regarding the previous Kingfisher incident, which seemed to have made some progress.

”The police have always suspected that these Kingfishers were smuggled from abroad. Recently, they’ve been watching a gang of smugglers, and they have identified the person who went to the Exhibition Center to place the Kingfisher carcasses, but that person has not shown up,” Tang Wan explained.

”The police asked me to come in just to understand the situation and ask if I know that person.”

”How could I know any smugglers? I can’t provide any clues.”

...

While speaking, Jiang Xiaowai had already brought out a cup of water from the kitchen, ”Mom, have some water.”

Seeing her son come out, Tang Wan didn’t continue the topic, but Jiang Jinsang seemed thoughtful after hearing it.

The little guy would behave particularly well for the next few days whenever he got into trouble.

**

At the same time, in a suburb factory

Four people sat around playing cards, another one had his head down, playing ’Fight the Landlord’ on his phone. The light was dim, and piles of half-processed machine materials were stacked around.

The shutter door suddenly opened, one of them immediately stood up, grabbing a homemade shotgun beside him.

As the person entered, the gun was already placed against the back of his head.

”It’s me.” The person had a hoarse voice, wearing a hat and a mask, fully wrapped up, ”I brought you some food.”

A man who was playing cards, bare-chested, with a tattooed floral arm, tilted his head to glance at the entrance, signaling the man with the gun to let him in, and the shutter door closed immediately.

”Here’s some food.” The man put the things down.

The tattooed man lit a cigarette, sucked on it a couple of times, while looking at the cards in his hand, ”Where’s the money?”

”Money, money... I currently don’t have...”

Before he finished speaking, the tattooed man threw down the cards in his hand, walked over, and slapped the things out of his hands, pressing him directly against one of the machines, ”I’m giving you face by calling you Jiang, promised us money, when will you get it?”

”I really don’t have money right now, I...”

The man disliked his unclear speech, lifted his hand and tore off his mask, ”Why are you wearing a mask? We’re the ones being hunted by the police, yet you’re covering yourself tightly.”

The mask was removed, revealing a clear face, none other than——

Jiang Zhaolin!

”Brother Qing, give me a little more time.”

”I’ve been lenient because of our long-time cooperation. You promised earlier to get us some Kingfisher corpses?” The man known as Brother Qing.

One hand pressing him, the other holding a cigarette, took a drag.

”What did you say back then? Just wanted to scare someone.”

”I thought, why not get a dead cat or dog? But you said that person was only afraid of the Kingfisher, so I found a channel and got it for you, but you didn’t tell me it would cause such a big commotion!”

”If it weren’t for this matter, the police wouldn’t even notice us brothers.”

”Damn it, shouldn’t have gotten hot-headed back then! Believing your bullshit.”

”Brother Qing, I didn’t know this would blow up so much either.” Jiang Zhaolin’s neck was pressed, his whole face against the machine, his hands clawing at it, supporting himself.

”You didn’t know? You wanted to scare Tang Wan, didn’t you? You wanted to mess with her?” Brother Qing snorted lightly, ”Jiang Zhaolin, we’ve worked together for years, don’t put on an act with me, but this matter now...”

”If mishandled, it could get us killed!”

”I’m telling you, if we get caught by the police, don’t think you’ll get away easy. At worst, we’ll die together.”

”Brother Qing, I really didn’t think the police would cling onto this.” Jiang Zhaolin couldn’t handle Jiang Jinsang now, just wanted to create a mess for them, let them suffer a bit.

But he didn’t expect the whole situation to become completely uncontrollable.

The police kept pursuing, possibly already having identified one of them.

Outside, the situation was tense, the police conducting surprise checks from time to time, verifying if there were any smuggled or stowaway individuals.

”Now our brothers are ready to flee, need some money. You know what to do.” Brother Qing still pressing his neck, ”You still owed us money before, and now with the police discovering the whereabouts, we definitely can’t return to the country in the coming years, so...