Chapter 67
“Now, even the wimps are acting up!”
“Hehe, Brother. Isn’t it a good thing? We can swallow up Mr. Son’s considerable shares.”
“Keke, that’s right. He must have been scared to death, so he’ll go back to Tianjin without even thinking about the money, and won’t even come near Liaoning, right? Isn’t that right? Kuhaha.”
The Triad was in a festive mood.
There were no more rivals for them, who had a firm grip on the commercial districts and the government.
They just had to pretend to take care of the interests of the investors who had invested money in the early days of the business, but in reality, they were monopolizing more than 80% of the profits.
And today, they had kicked out Mr. Son, who had a considerable number of shares.
Since they were gangsters who didn’t care about laws and principles in the first place, the Triad intended to swallow up Mr. Son’s rights as they were.
‘You dog-like bastards.’
‘I should just sell off my shares and move to another province.’
‘There’s no answer, no answer.’
Although the investors were grinding their teeth, they could not dare to protest.
At this rate, it would be better to advance into a province where a martial arts sect was active, sponsor them with a large sum of money, and do business.
Although they had traveled all over the Central Plains and done all kinds of business, neither the notorious officials nor the shameless martial arts sects were this shameless.
Just then,
“Our partners. You saw what happened today, right? Don’t get any useless ideas. We are an economic community. Let’s be happy together like this until the end~ Huh? Let’s be together. Kekeke!”
A Triad executive, full of arrogance, said to the investors.
His words were nice, but it was no different from a threat.
“Brother. What are you talking about? Now, now! Partners. If we go together like this, we’ll become rich. We’ve got a grip on the commercial districts, and the magistrate is on our side. What a wonderful world this is. In addition, our Triad’s skills. This is completely alive, isn’t it? Huh? Kuhahaha!”
“Of course. Is this what they call omnipotence? It was a good decision to settle in Liaoning. We’re lucky!”
In that moment,
“You guys are really unlucky.”
A young man who looked to be just of age entered the room and muttered.
The questioning gazes of the people were focused on the young man.
“Why did the gangster bastards from the end of Hainan have to set up shop here in Liaoning and end up ruined?”
The gangsters’ faces contorted.
“You… what are you?”
“Me? What do I look like?”
“What?!”
“As for me, I’ve recently been called the ‘returned hell instructor’.”
“What are you talking about, you wimp!”
“Let’s just be the grim reaper today. That would suit me better.”
Just then.
Two familiar figures appeared behind the young man.
“You… you guys?”
The two were none other than Teacher Po and Mr. Son, and the young man was, of course, So-ah.
“Teacher Po here was my family’s tutor. He was going to start a business to spend his old age comfortably. But you dare to beat up my teacher? I can’t just stand by and watch, can I?”
Only then did the gangsters realize that So-ah was not an easy opponent.
“What? Family? What on earth is your family to be so loud?”
“The Moyong Family.”
At that one word, the room froze coldly.
The Moyong Family!
Why had they forgotten about their existence until now?
They had been complacent.
They had been foolish, negligent, and peaceful.
As that thought crossed their minds, the gangsters finally realized who the real master of Liaoning was.
In the mountain where the fox had reigned, a tiger had appeared.
***
“Is that true? Can you really exterminate those trash? Sister Jeong-ran?!”
“Yes. It’s a matter that the martial artists have stepped up to. The Triad? They’ll be devastated in an hour, you brat.”
“Th-Then what about the government? The magistrate, Ga Yeong-deuk, that crazy bastard, is backing them.”
“That’s…”
While So-ah and Teacher Po were active, Yuk Jeong-ran was also tirelessly carrying out her role.
That was to secure all kinds of criminal evidence and witnesses against the Triad.
It was possible because of her brilliant career and connections from ruling the entertainment world of Liaoning for 10 years, as well as the rampant corruption of the Triad.
“Sister. Here it is!”
“This is…!”
“Geumjoncheong, Shaoxing wine… Huadiao wine, Xiangxue wine, Guzhenggong wine, and Yanghe Daqu. They were secretly distributing all kinds of liquor from all over the Central Plains without paying taxes. Those rotten bastards.”
Evidence one.
The crime of smuggling enough of the world’s best famous liquors to fill a dozen warehouses without paying liquor tax.
“Master Yuk. We all haven’t received our monthly salaries for three months, and we were even threatened that our houses would be set on fire if we didn’t come to work. At this point, shouldn’t those bastards’ heads be cut off with a guillotine?!”
Evidence two.
Courtesans, cooks, waiters, servants, kitchen maids, and brothel uncles.
The crime of extorting the wages of most of the employees engaged in the entertainment and food service industries and threatening their lives.
“This is a real secret… Sister. Are you sure nothing will happen to me?”
“If you guys protect them, nothing will change. Think carefully. This is the last chance to cut out the abscess of Liaoning.”
“That’s, sister. This is something I found out by chance… One day, I was moving luggage in the basement of Seonghae-ru…”
The last piece of evidence.
The moment she opened the boxes neatly stacked in a corner of the dark basement, Yuk Jeong-ran was convinced.
That the Triad would by no means escape the guillotine.
What she saw was a thunderbolt bomb.
The thunderbolt bomb was a gunpowder weapon with terrifying destructive power.
Just possessing it was a capital crime.
It was a matter that not only the government but also the imperial court would deal with severely, and in the martial world, the moment the thunderbolt bomb was used, regardless of orthodox or unorthodox, one would become a public enemy, so unless one’s guts were outside their body, they could not possess a thunderbolt bomb.
‘Young Master Jin. This should be enough, right?’
Yuk Jeong-ran, judging that any more evidence or witnesses were meaningless, sent a message to the Moyong family.
***
“Hehe. The true hero of the great Moyong Family! I have heard of Young Master Jin’s fame. They say he is the number one master of his peers in the world. Our Triad members, as proud men, have always respected Young Master Jin.”
The gangsters, who showed a change of attitude to the point of being dumbfounded.
Of course, So-ah had experienced numerous changes of attitude from humans until now.
But all of them had shown such an appearance only after the ‘beating’ had begun.
But the Triad?
Weren’t they rubbing their hands together and flattering him just with the names of the Moyong Family and So-ah?
But this was a natural thing.
Although the Triad was a successful gangster group, in front of the Moyong Family, the representative martial arts family of Liaoning, they were like mice in front of a tiger.
“Young Master Jin. There must have been some misunderstanding. If we had known that Teacher Po was connected to the Moyong family, how could we have been so rude? Hahat.”
“So? This was all a misunderstanding?”
“Of course, of course.”
“Ah! So if it was a misunderstanding, it’s over if I forgive you?”
“Yes? Yes… that’s right, well…”
“Alright. If it was a misunderstanding, I have to forgive you. Of course, of course.”
“Hehe, that’s right. It’s natural for misunderstandings to arise when people live together!”
The gangster’s words, which he was spouting, were cut short and turned into a terrible scream.
—Thwack!
So-ah’s ‘physical therapy-only club’ had landed on his head.
“Oh my. Then from now on, I’ll give you a ‘misunderstanding’. This is all a misunderstanding, so you have to forgive me too, right? Got it?”
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack!
Internal energy?
Techniques?
There was no need for such things.
Because a club was the best medicine for a mad dog in the first place.
“Misunderstanding one!”
Thwack, thwack, thwack!
“Misunderstanding two!”
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack!
“Uwaaaaaack!”
Disbelief appeared in the eyes of the people.
The Moyong Family!
A graceful and prestigious martial arts family of Liaoning, which, unlike other Jianghu sects, had never been involved in vested interests, a family with a truly scholarly temperament.
The Moyong Family was a prestigious family that had not had a single dispute with civilians other than martial artists for generations.
The great disciple of such a Moyong Family.
And the chief instructor of the White Martial Academy, which trained rising stars to become officials of the Martial Alliance.
Moreover, the one who was known as the number one master of his peers in the world!
“Misunderstanding three!”
Thwack, thwack, thwack!
“Misunderstanding four!”
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack!
“Misunderstanding five!”
“Kwaaaaaaaack!”
He was beating people up so mercilessly that it was impossible to even watch with open eyes.
‘Oh my goodness! What is that?!’
‘A person is beating a person like that?’
‘Leaving everything else aside, is that really the great disciple of the Moyong Family, Young Master Jin?’
The crowd’s brows furrowed automatically.
The sight of So-ah, who was trampling on the gangster’s body, which had become a bloody pulp with his facial bones caved in and his arms and legs crushed, and swinging his club with lightning speed.
‘Hah… our So-ah… has grown up to be quite scary.’
Even Teacher Po was trembling at So-ah’s ferocity, so there was no need to mention the gangsters’ feelings.
“Pleeease… pleeease… save me…!”
“I was wroooong… save me…”
“Stop… pleeeease!”
The gangsters, who had spit out their yellow teeth into the air, pleaded with a lisp.
But So-ah just curled up the corners of his mouth.
The clubbing did not stop for a moment.
“A while ago, there was an old woman who talked nonsense with a strange pronunciation like you guys. I remember that time. Haha. Was that old hag’s name Black Rose? Of course, I tore her apart from the thorns of the black rose to the petals.”
My goodness!
An old woman.
He even hit an old woman?
Although they were silent, the people were clearly saying so with astonished faces.
“Now, now! Shall we start the misunderstanding again? Misunderstanding, six!”
Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack!
“Misunderstanding seven…!”
“Kwaaaaaaaack!”
In this way, So-ah, after going through a whopping 70 misunderstandings, asked the gangsters for forgiveness.
“Gangster-nims! It was all a misunderstanding until now. So you’ll forgive me, right?”
“…”
“You’re not answering? Should I just misunderstand some more?”
“Yeeeees! We forgive… we forgive you… we did it a long time ago… we did it all…”
“Oh my, our gangster brothers are so kind-hearted. If it were me, I would never! Let go of the misunderstanding. Kekeke.”
‘That’s…’
‘A demon…’
‘Die!’
It was the moment when the chilling sound of So-ah’s laughter brushed past the gangsters’ ears.
***
“They’re more vicious than I thought, aren’t they?”
So-ah, who had returned to the family, could not help but click his tongue as he looked at the stolen goods piled up in front of him.
The thunderbolt bomb.
He had never thought that the Triad would handle even such a thing.
“My body is trembling. It seems it was a good thing that I decided to wipe out these guys.”
“That’s right, Uncle. I wonder where they were planning to sell this thunderbolt bomb.”
“I don’t know. But one thing is for sure, it’s not an ordinary matter. This can be said to be a matter of the existence of the Central Plains. I’ll have to report this to the Martial Alliance Leader as well.”
In that moment, Yuk Jeong-ran opened her mouth.
“Young Master Jin. I’ve finished my role now. For this, many business people in Liaoning helped. The Moyong Family must guarantee their safety and livelihood. They are all still trembling with fear.”
At that, So-ah nodded and reassured her.
“Don’t worry, Young Lady Yuk. By tomorrow, everything will be over.”
“Young Master Jin…”
“Since I’ve beaten the Triad executives to a pulp, they will definitely come with the magistrate. They will try to mediate between our family and the Triad in some way.”
“Because their source of money will be cut off.”
“That’s right. But that’s the end of it.”
“Ah…!”
Just then, Teacher Po, who had been silent, slowly opened his mouth.
“Of course. My younger brother will step up tomorrow.”
So-ah smiled with satisfaction.
‘Aren’t I going to get a reward from the emperor for this?’