20 years of the Republic of China

Chapter 569: A War Without Kindness and Justice (Part )
Because of panic, his breathing became more rapid and heavy.

The heartbeat quickened and the mask on the head expanded back and forth, making people feel chest tightness and shortness of breath, accompanied by waves of lack of oxygen and then dizziness.

Huang Ma Pi used all his senses, desperately absorbing information about his surroundings to determine where he was.

After leaving the new stage, the car ran for more than ten minutes and then stopped, and he was pulled out of the car.

The wind outside was very strong, and it seemed to have reached the edge of the county.

Huang Ma Pi heard the car driving away and the kidnappers split into two groups. He himself was placed in a rickshaw and drove quickly for a long time.

Finally, he came here and was pressed on a cold chair with his hands and feet tied behind his back.

There was a dusty smell in the air, and the surroundings were slightly damp and chilly.

There is light, but not very bright.

The kidnappers were whispering not far away. Although their voices were very low, the place seemed very empty and had a faint echo. It seemed to be a small warehouse.

What surprised Huang Ma Pi was that he was not silenced, which was enough to show that this place was far away from the urban area.

Since it has not been silenced, it means there is still room for discussion.

Huang Ma Pi took a few deep breaths, calmed himself down, thought for a moment, and finally opened his mouth and asked a few questions.

"Brothers, which gang are you from? Is it the Taihu gang? We can talk it over. I can give you any amount you want. Please don't hurt our relationship."

The kidnappers were still talking in low voices not far away, and no one paid attention to his questions.

Huang Ma Pi was stunned for a long while, then asked, "Um... did we have some misunderstandings before? Just tell me your number, we can solve it any way we want. People in the arena should help each other. We can say that we got to know each other through fighting, and we can still take care of each other in the future... Hey, why aren't you talking?"

As soon as the words fell, the warehouse suddenly became quiet.

Then, a series of footsteps gradually approached.

Huang Ma Pi leaned back in his chair, his whole body stiff, and asked tremblingly, "Brother, are you the boss?"

I thought the negotiations had finally begun, but unexpectedly the man walked up to me and slapped me in the face, causing Huang Ma Pi to see stars.

The kidnapper yelled, "Fuck you! Who calls you a brother? Shut up! If you keep on talking, I'll cut out your tongue!"

The man spoke with a northern accent. Huang Mapi secretly remembered it in his heart. At the same time, he turned sideways and begged for mercy in a pleading voice.

"Don't do it, don't do it, I know your rules, I will cooperate with you no matter what you want me to do."

"Rules? What rules?"

A sharp knife was immediately pressed against Huang Ma Pi's throat from behind, and someone else asked with a sneer, "Come on, tell me, what are the rules for us brothers?"

Huang Ma Pi didn't dare to say anything else, he just shook his head tremblingly.

"Don't be afraid, Lao Deng. This guy has never killed anyone. He is just teasing you!" The man in front of him smiled and asked, "Hey, Xiao Fu, what did you do before?"

The kidnapper leaned over and whispered in Huang Ma Pi's ear: "Before I started this business, I was a pig castrator in the village. I have a very good skill."

As he spoke, he slowly walked around the armchair and touched the little sparrow on the jute skin with his knife.

"Lao Deng, I heard you have no children, so what do you need this thing for? It's so annoying to see it hanging around. How about I pick it for you?"

The bandit Hu who guards the "Yangzifang" is the most ruthless and cruel. He can do whatever he says.

Hearing this, Huang Ma Pi could not help but feel a chill in his heart. He quickly put his legs together and begged for mercy in a trembling voice: "No, no, no, my dear, don't joke, don't joke!"

When the bandits saw his reaction, they immediately burst into laughter.

Just at this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps suddenly came from the warehouse door.

Someone came over to report the news, and the bandits whispered to each other for a while, and the joking atmosphere just now disappeared.

Huang Ma Pi was about to listen carefully when the kidnapper suddenly took off his mask. He was so scared that he quickly closed his eyes and shouted, "I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything!"

"Stop making a fuss, man. Why would I be afraid of you looking at me?"

Several kidnappers raised their hands and immediately slapped Huang Ma Pi in the face again.

Having said that, everyone still covered his eyes with a three-finger-wide black cloth and tied a knot at the back of his head.

Soon, I heard the warehouse door opening and closing.

Then, there were crisp footsteps coming slowly towards this side from afar.

"Click, click..."

It was the sound of leather shoes, neither fast nor slow.

Wherever the footsteps passed, the kidnappers around him whispered "Boss".

Amid the calls of "Boss", Huang Mapi suddenly felt that the light in the warehouse had become much dimmer, and a darker and thicker figure came in front of him.

This time, the person who came must be the leader of this group of kidnappers.

Huang Ma Pi was about to speak when a loud "clang" was suddenly heard not far away.

He trembled twice in response, and after listening carefully, he found that one of the bandits had brought another chair and placed it diagonally in front of him.

The man sat down slowly, then stretched out his arm and patted Huang Ma Pi's shoulder heavily, scaring him so much that he immediately shrank his head.

"Inspector Huang."

"Have!"

"Nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you, nice to meet you. Who are you, Nong?"

"Is this important?" the visitor asked with a smile.

Huang Ma Pi quickly shook his head, thought for a moment, then nodded and asked, "Uh... I don't know why you tied me up, or called me here, for what? I think maybe I've run into some trouble. If you want to make money, just name your price."

"Seeking wealth? How much is your life worth? Tell me."

The kidnappers immediately burst into laughter.

Huang Ma Pi couldn't help but be stunned and felt a chill in his heart.

If you're not seeking money, then you're seeking revenge, there's nothing to talk about.

Huang Mapi burped suddenly and almost passed out on the spot. His whole body was shaking like a sieve and he was silent as a cicada.

"My dear... there is no hatred between us. There must be some misunderstanding here. I am usually too busy and don't know how I offended you. Tell me now and I will find a way to solve it. No, you make the conditions and I will definitely cooperate... Please, please show some mercy to me because I am over fifty years old..."

Before he could finish his words, the man pinched the back of Huang Mapi's neck hard, signaling him to shut up.

There was silence for a moment.

Immediately, the man in front of him, who was called "Boss" by the kidnappers, suddenly poked Huang Mapi's collarbone with his hand and said something incomprehensible.

"Inspector Huang - you are a man who cares about face."

"I, I want to die too."

"Hiss - you want both your life and your reputation. Aren't you a little greedy?"

"Then I want my life, not my face. I really don't want my face."

"No!" The kidnapper's leader refused sternly, "Inspector Huang, you have to save face, and I will give you face too. You have to save face first before you can survive." Huang Ma Pi knew the gang's methods very well.

When bandits kidnap people, they always say something vague and confusing to make people unable to figure out their true intentions.

Some of them are for the purpose of extracting information, and asking about the hostage's family background through indirect methods; some are for finding out the hostage's background to avoid encountering thorny issues; and some seemingly irrelevant and crazy talk are purely for the purpose of breaking through the hostage's psychological defenses.

However, for jute bark, such speculations do not apply.

He is already famous enough in the foreign concessions. Since they have kidnapped him, it is impossible that they don't know his background.

Moreover, the visitor's words were obviously meaningful. It was just that he panicked for a moment and failed to react.

After thinking for a while, Huang Ma Pi finally made a bitter face and asked for help: "Good man... Nong, Nong, what do you mean, can you just tell me directly?"

The kidnapper sighed and said, "Inspector Huang, you are right. I have investigated carefully and there is really not much hatred between us."

"Really? That's great. I've already said it before. Even if there is a grudge, it's just a misunderstanding."

"But now we have a grudge against each other."

"No hatred, absolutely no hatred! We are all brothers in the same business, we don't know each other without fighting!"

The kidnapper smiled and said, "Okay, even if there is no hatred between us, your gang of idiots are a bit unruly. They are like flies buzzing around our heads all day long. Don't you think they are annoying?"

Huang Ma Pi didn't dare to say "no", so he nodded and said, "Fan, those little bastards are just bullies. When I get back, I will teach them a lesson and apologize to all the heroes."

"You want to leave now?"

"No, no, I, I'll follow your arrangements."

Seeing his expression, everyone couldn't help but laugh.

Huang Ma Pi had no choice but to shake his head and smile bitterly.

Suddenly, the kidnapper asked again: "Inspector Huang, tell me the truth, how many times have you been kidnapped?"

Huang Ma Pi was startled when he heard this, as if he remembered something, and asked hurriedly: "Brother, Nong, Nong, could it be that you are Mr. Lu's man? Hasn't the misunderstanding been resolved between us?"

"How to solve it?"

"Yes--"

When the words came to his lips, Huang Mapi swallowed them back. It seemed that he didn't want to mention that embarrassing past.

However, the person in charge deliberately rubbed salt into his wounds, laughing and saying, "How about I help you recall? You were kidnapped by Mr. Lu before, and it was Du Yong who personally went to the governor to plead for you and gave up the shares of Sanjin Company, so that he could get you out, right?"

Huang Ma Pi nodded and refused to say anything.

"A distinguished Chinese detective in the French Concession, a leader in the foreign concessions, and a tycoon in Shanghai, was kidnapped by the son of the governor. He was helpless and was rescued by his subordinates instead—"

As he spoke, the kidnapper leader suddenly patted Huang Mapi's arm and asked, "Inspector Huang, isn't this a shameful thing?"

Huang Ma Pi lowered his head and said nothing.

"Tsk, don't be silent!"

The kidnapper asked again, "Inspector Huang, tell me, if this happens again, what will the brothers in the underworld think?"

"This this……"

"Du Yong and Zhang Xiaolin are so popular in Shanghai that even Lao Chai from the police station doesn't dare to provoke them. I am getting more and more confused. Is this foreign land still named Huang?"

"This this……"

"Last time you were kidnapped by Mr. Lu, Zhang Xiaolin didn't intend to save you. Inspector Huang has spies everywhere. You should know about this, right?"

Huang Ma Pi stammered and couldn't say anything for a long time.

The delicate relationship between the "three big tycoons" in Shanghai was originally a secret within the Green Gang, but now it has been exposed by the kidnappers in front of them.

Huang Mapi felt a little embarrassed.

The young are to be feared, and Zhang and Du happen to be sworn brothers.

One is powerful in his hometown and is not considered a disciple of the Huang family; the other seems calm and easy-going, but in fact has ulterior motives.

The old man was hanging over the two of them, and he had gradually developed a sense of crisis. His wife had become a hands-off boss, and he himself would retire from the police station in four years. By then, his reputation would surely have declined.

Power, once it falls into your hands, is as hard to give up as the flesh and blood of your heart.

Huang Ma Pi nodded and said against his will: "Brother, I can see that you called me here not to ask for money or revenge, but to help me."

"You can use this nonsense to fool the devil!"

The kidnapper didn't give any face at all and said directly: "If you want face, I will help you, but you have to help us too."

"That's right, brother, if you have any instructions, just tell me." Huang Mapi asked hurriedly.

"It's not really an order, I just want to borrow your mouth to issue a few orders, help us arrest a few people, release a few people, and make room for us."

"Okay, okay, you can arrest whoever you want."

They were talking happily when the kidnapper suddenly stood up, pulled out a Ma brand revolver from his bosom, loaded it with a "click", and put it against Huang Jute's temple without saying a word.

"Hey, good man, good man, what did I say wrong? Don't be impulsive, okay?"

"Old Deng, from now on, you'd better remember every word I say." The kidnapper's voice was low, "If you say even a single word wrong later, your head will be split open immediately, understand?"

"I understand, I understand!" Huang Mapi nodded quickly.

Immediately, the kidnapper's leader put forward various demands very patiently, his tone was extremely patient and his words were orderly.

In just a cup of tea, everything is arranged.

The kidnappers even made an exception and gave Huang Ma Pi a cigarette and a glass of wine. After he smoked and drank, and waited for him to calm down a little, the telephone was also taken out.

The person in charge held the gun in his right hand and pressed the muzzle against Huang Mapi's jaw; he picked up the phone with his left hand and put it close to Huang Mapi's ear, while he also put his hand close to the receiver.

If you say something wrong, your head will move immediately.

The phone rang three or two times before someone finally answered it.

"Hello, this is the Huang Mansion."

"Uh...are you Erqing?"

The person on the other end of the phone immediately started arguing, and asked hurriedly, "Master, are you okay? Are the kidnappers with you?"

Huang Ma Pi took a deep breath, swallowed his saliva, and then, as if he was furious, he shouted into the microphone: "What the hell are you talking about? Who's been kidnapped? I'm drinking with my friends now!"

"W-what?"

"Are you fucking deaf?"

Huang Ma Pi tried to cover up his trembling voice with anger, and continued, "I just received a message from an informant. Tonight, the Guangdong Gang is preparing to cause trouble in the French Concession. Notify all detectives to go to the intersections of Aiduoya Road immediately and arrest and punish them severely!"

"No... Master, where are you?"

"Damn it, you talk too much nonsense. You still know that I am your master, so just do what I say immediately. If you say another word of nonsense, I will throw you into the Huangpu River to feed the fish tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)