Chapter 97: Stable Win Without Loss

  "Ah oh!!!!!!" The orange Camaro sped quickly on the ring road in Nanshan City, Linglong Duan sat in the passenger seat, the window rolled down, her hands were placed around her mouth, and then she shouted loudly with all her might, her voice drifting away very far.

  With one breath, she completely exhaled the stale air in her chest cavity. Tong Mu Ling then sat back down, a happy smile on her face, but with sparkling tears at the corners of her eyes.

  The car slowed down and stopped by the side of the road. Chu Yan looked at Duanmu Linglong beside him, whose expression was somewhat melancholic and sad. He pondered for a moment, then took out a flat wine bottle from his bosom. On the bottle, there was an engraving of a three-legged wolf head.

  "Feeling down, have a drink, don't worry, there's no poison in it." Chu Yan said, opening the lid of the wine jug and handing it to Duanmu Linglong's mouth. The little girl hesitated for a moment, took the wine jug, and then tilted her head back, pouring all the wine into her belly like drinking water.

  Although the wine jug was not large, at most it was only three liang, but drinking down three liang of strong liquor in one breath was absolutely not something that Duanmu Linglong this little girl could endure. After finishing the drink, she coughed continuously for several times, and then stared at Chu Yan with red eyes "Dead glass, what kind of wine is this? How can it be so spicy?"

  "Sixty-eight degrees, two pots of liquor, how's that? Enough to get you going?" Chu Yan smiled and pushed open the car door, getting out onto the ring highway at night. The taillights of cars driving by were scattered here and there, and under the moonlight, the highway seemed especially bright. He leaned against the car, lit a cigarette, and took a deep drag, feeling the gentle night breeze. This feeling was beautiful.

  After a while, Duanmu Linglong wiped away her tears and also got out of the car. After being anesthetized by the strong wine, this little girl's emotions gradually stabilized. However, with this gust of wind, the intoxicating effect of the strong wine also surged up. "Chuyan, take me home, I'm a bit tired."

  Chu Yan nodded, took a deep drag on the cigarette butt in his mouth, and then opened the car door to get in. The car started slowly and headed towards the city center, driving at a very steady pace because Duan Mu Ling was sitting in the passenger seat, seemingly having dozed off to sleep.

  Taishan International, Jinsong Building.

  Just after sending Du Mu Linglong back home, Chu Yan met a young man in luxury brands at the door, holding a large bunch of fiery red roses, and was standing at the door pressing the intercom. Chu Yan took a look at the house number he pressed, which seemed to be the suite where Du Mu Linglong lived.

  "Wait a minute... Ah..." The young man holding the rose saw someone coming out of the corridor and immediately wanted to take advantage of it, but Chu Yan didn't have such a good heart, so he deliberately blocked him. Behind him, the anti-theft door in the corridor automatically locked.

  "Oh, sorry, you first." Chu Yan smiled and stopped in his tracks, while the young man also looked dissatisfied. Given that Chu Yan's outfit was full of gangster vibes and he had just come out of this building, even if he was angry, he didn't dare to lash out. After all, people who could appear here almost all had some background, and if you were unlucky, maybe someone who looked unremarkable would make you suffer a big loss. So, in this place, being low-key was the best policy.

  "No need, thank you. There's no one at home, and even if I went up, I couldn't get in." The young man said, took out a pair of gold-rimmed glasses from his pocket, pressed the intercom a few more times, then turned around with a somewhat dejected look and left. Chu Yan smiled as he watched the guy's back disappear, muttering to himself "I've already cut off all the wires, you've pressed the doorbell so hard that no one can hear it upstairs."

  It wasn't Chu Yan's intention to cause trouble, but Duanmu Linglong had drunk too much and was sleeping soundly. Chu Yan was afraid someone would disturb her, so he simply pulled out the intercom terminal line upstairs temporarily, and when Duanmu Linglong woke up, she could plug it back in herself.

  Leaving the Taishan International Residential Area, Chu Yan received a call from Jiang Xiaoran. The phone call was about a lot of things after going back to work, mainly revolving around the new beautiful female boss. Jiang Xiaoran mentioned Zhenzi, and only then did Chu Yan remember that he should probably give Ye Lu a call to see how this little guy's recent progress was going?

  "Let's go eat some midnight snacks." Chu Yan had originally planned to eat something at the wine party, but unexpectedly didn't get to eat anything and ended up consuming a lot of his own calories. Now, going to eat some barbecue and drink some beer seemed like a good choice.

  "Alright, see you later, Chu Ge." The wild donkey answered happily over the phone. Chu Yan could tell that this kid was very pleased, and after they agreed on a meeting spot, they hung up the phone.

  Eating barbecue naturally means going to Food Street, where there is food during the day and at night it becomes a world of barbecue. An hour later, Chu Yan arrived at Food Street and saw from afar that Ye Zi and Zhenzi were sitting at Liu San's barbecue stall opposite Liu Ama's wonton shop, with beer already open and many skewers already cooked.

  "Chu ge, come here." Wild donkey's favorite midnight snack was barbecue, aside from the feeling of eating it, being cheap was also a major reason, after all, the old wild donkey was really not doing well.

  "Have you ordered everything?" Chu Yan walked over and sat down opposite Wild Donkey, Jingzi sat beside the two of them, away from Emperor. In just a short day's time, the change in Jingzi was so great that even Chu Yan hadn't expected it.

  At the time of the emperor, because she had to be a princess who served wine, her clothes were fashionable and bright, even revealing. After leaving the emperor, there was not a single piece of clothing on Jingzi's body that was connected to her previous work. She only wore a simple white dress with her calves exposed and a pair of ordinary high heels on her feet. Her hairstyle was also neatly combed, and at first glance, if she put on a pair of glasses, she would have looked like a teacher.

  "Mutton skewers, beef tendon, chicken head, chicken wings, chicken neck... basically I've ordered a bit of everything he has here. Let's eat and drink together! Come on, Chu Ge, let me toast you!" Wild Donkey said, raising his beer bottle. Jingzi next to him also raised a bottle of beer: "Chu Ge, no need to thank us for the great favor, I'll take the first shot as a sign of respect."

  Jingzi finished speaking, tilted her head back and downed a whole bottle of beer in one breath. Although she was no longer the "Beer Drinking Queen", her capacity for alcohol had long been established through practice. Drinking beer was no different from drinking cold water to her.

  Watching the two wild donkeys finish their beer, Chu Yan also smiled and finished his own beer. Then he picked up a skewer of mutton and started eating. "Alright, let's not talk about useless things, let's eat."

  The wild donkey and Jingzi nodded, they understood Chu Yan's character, so they didn't drag on those nonsense, purely drinking, eating barbecue, and chatting about everything under the sun.

  "Jingzi, are you getting used to the work at the clinic?" As for his first job in a strict sense, Chuyan was still worried about it, and Jingzi, as the person in charge, naturally needed to be concerned.

  "Don't worry, Chu Ge, I'm fine. I'll soon get familiar with the daily work at the clinic. After all, I'm a returned overseas student with a master's degree in business administration. If I can't even handle this, how can I help you with other things in the future?" Although Zhen Zi had been living among the aristocracy for a long time, her way of speaking still carried a hint of deliberate flattery. However, Chu Yan could sense that Zhen Zi's confidence was very strong, which is the most basic support for a person to be successful!

  After three rounds of wine and five flavors, Chu Yan suddenly felt that something was wrong. The crowd on the food street seemed to have decreased unknowingly, especially where they were sitting. There were originally many people around them, but now within a radius of thirty meters, there were only more than ten people, and these dozen or so people had subtly surrounded him, Ye Lu and Zhenzi in the middle.

  "Wild donkey, how's things going here?" Chu Yan asked with a smile, casually picking up a bottle of beer.

  "Chu Ge, don't worry, if everything goes smoothly, we can pull out the hardest nail tonight." Ye Lu's smile was tinged with madness, his eyes swept around in a circle, and the slight curve of his mouth made Chu Yan nod in approval. "Not bad, this kid is quite clever."

  "You little rascal, you're really good at grasping opportunities." Chu Yan's words were naturally understood by Ye Lu, but Ye Lu's face didn't show any embarrassment. "Chu Ge, actually, your appearance here today was just a coincidence. I had already made arrangements and plans for tonight, and then you called me to have a midnight snack, so it just happened to be perfect timing. This kind of sure-win situation, why not take advantage of it?"

  As soon as the wild donkey's voice fell, a group of at least thirty or forty people holding chopping knives and other sharp objects came walking towards the wild donkey with a swagger. The leader had a gold chain around his neck that was as thick as a thumb, and on his hand was a large, glittering gold ring. His body was nearly spherical in shape!

  When Chu Yan first saw the kid, he almost instantly thought of Luo Kai. The two men's styling and build were almost identical, the only difference being that Luo Kai wore high-end suits worth tens of thousands of yuan per set, while this guy wore a few dozen yuan worth of tank tops and floral shorts. Apart from that, they were basically indistinguishable.

  "Wild donkey! You're quite ruthless, aren't you?! In just a few days' time, you've occupied half of the Food Street's territory. I've been following Master Zhao for so long, and now that he's gone, you think you can take over?!" The newcomer's expression was arrogant, trying to use some refined language but ultimately resorting to a string of profanities.

  "Watermelon, are you relying on the crowd to bully the few?" The wild donkey was surrounded by forty or so people, with an absolute advantage in numbers, but there was not a hint of fear on his face. Instead, he looked at the fat man in front of him, his voice laced with amusement.

  "That's right, I'm bullying you because there are fewer of you. How about it?" Xigua's expression was very pleased, he had been waiting for a long time to get this opportunity, and brought all his younger brothers out to completely drive the wild donkey out of Food Street once and for all.

  "Oh, since that's the case, let's gang up on them, brothers! Let's get to work!!" With Wild Donkey's one sentence, from all around the shops, more than ten people rushed out of each shop, and in less than half a minute, they completely blocked off the entire Food Street.

  "Watermelon, you have fewer people than I do!" The wild donkey said, and suddenly raised his hand to snap his fingers in the air. "Brothers, take down their guys!"