Chapter 36: An Exciting Night
In Zha'nan, at the Su family garbage yard.
Su Tianyu led the team, with Kong Zhenghui, Bai Hongbo, Su Tianbei, and other core family members all assembled. Since this was their first job, everyone was quite attentive, with all the main forces mobilized.
After studying the route for receiving the goods, they were about to set off together. But before they left, Daxiong, who hadn't gone home that night, approached Su Tianyu alone: "Li-Little Yu Brother... there's work tonight... right?"
Daxiong was someone who didn't like going home usually. Even when he got off work early in the evening with nothing to do, he preferred to stay at the garbage yard, sometimes even sleeping there.
Su Tianyu glanced at him: "Who told you?"
"Heard Third Sister say it at noon, hehe," Daxiong laughed simple-mindedly. "Can... can you take me along?"
"This job is a bit dangerous, we're receiving goods at sea."
"I... I'll be fine... if you can do it, I can do it too. I'm not afraid of hard work, I want to earn more money," Daxiong replied proactively. "Just take me with you."
"Why are you so eager to earn extra money?"
"...I... I need to support myself... save money to buy... buy a house, get married," Daxiong replied honestly.
"Alright then, you can come along. Follow orders, okay?" Su Tianyu instructed.
"Okay, I'll be obedient," Daxiong nodded heavily.
After they finished talking, Kong Zhenghui waved his hand and called out: "Let's go, everyone get in the cars."
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Around 11:30 at night, about 30 kilometers away from Zha'nan District's civilian port, on a shallow beach, Su Tianbei and Bai Hongbo led people to push three speedboats into the water, covering them with tarpaulins to prevent metal reflections in the moonlight.
Su Tianyu smoked a cigarette, standing on a rock on the beach, gazing at the sea surface, and glancing at his watch.
"They haven't arrived yet?" Kong Zhenghui came over and asked.
"Not yet," Su Tianyu looked at Kong Zhenghui with some confusion and asked: "Do you think the higher-ups can really cover this? With so many goods coming in, if we're caught by the maritime police, it'll be enough to keep us in jail until we're sixty."
"Brother, what job nowadays is without risk?" Kong Zhenghui asked in return.
Su Tianyu fell silent.
"We're living in this era. The bold get rich, the timid starve," Kong Zhenghui also looked at the sea and replied: "When opportunities come, we must seize them."
Su Tianyu smiled: "That's true."
The cold wind blew as everyone hid behind the rocks, waiting quietly.
More than an hour passed. Just as Su Tianyu was about to urge Yu Mingyuan, his new card phone rang: "Hello?"
"Get in the water, I've arranged everything on this side," Tang Baiqing's voice came through.
"Alright, alright!"
"Move quickly, the tide will recede in an hour and a half," Tang Baiqing urged.
"Understood," Su Tianyu nodded and hung up the phone, then turned back and shouted: "Push the boats, get in the water!"
At his command, over twenty people lifted the tarpaulins and nimbly jumped onto the speedboats. Those responsible for steering immediately started the diesel engines, followed by the deafening noise of the motors.
Su Tianyu sat on the front of the first speedboat and couldn't help but sigh: "Damn, I'm a dignified graduate of the Staff College, never thought I'd be doing this kind of thieving work."
"Stop babbling, do you want to make money or save face?" Bai Hongbo crouched in the speedboat and urged: "Hurry up, let's go!"
"Vroom vroom vroom!"
With the roar of the engines, the three speedboats left the beach and headed towards the outer harbor.
On the sea surface, the cold wind howled and waves rolled.
After about half an hour of speeding, the three boats arrived at the edge of the inner harbor and saw a transport ship with a load capacity of about 80,000 tons.
Su Tianyu turned his head to look around and could vaguely see the patrol boats and lights of the maritime police.
"Signal, quick!" Su Tianbei ordered.
At his words, three people took out flashlights and began signaling to the cargo ship with light codes.
About half a minute later, someone on the second deck of the cargo ship responded with a flashlight.
"Move closer," Su Tianyu waved, directing the speedboats.
The three speedboats circled to the left rear of the cargo ship and tied themselves to the iron anchors hanging on the ship's wall with their own ropes. Then the sailors responsible for supplying goods on the ship began to lower the goods with ropes.
Box after box of sealed goods fell from above, and everyone below neatly stacked the goods, saving space with swift movements.
During this time, Su Tianyu kept an eye on the maritime police patrol boats in the distance, but saw that they weren't moving towards this side at all.
Time passed minute by second, and goods worth about 400,000 yuan were all neatly stacked on the three speedboats. By this time, there was almost no space left for people to move, and they could only sit on top of the goods.
This was the first time they were moving goods, mainly to test the waters, so the quantity wasn't large. But even so, the initial profit would be at least around 50%.
"Is the count correct?" Kong Zhenghui asked Su Tianyu.
"It's enough," Su Tianyu nodded.
"Signal, let's go," Kong Zhenghui ordered.
At his words, people on the speedboats again waved flashlights, signaling to the other side. Then Su Tianbei and the others removed the iron chains tying them to the big ship's wall, and everyone quickly retreated from the goods receiving area.
On the way back, the speedboats rode the wind and waves, with everyone sitting on top of the goods with solemn expressions, no one making a sound.
In fact, everyone was very nervous. They all knew this stuff made money, but also understood what the consequences would be if they were caught.
Soon, the scene of the beach appeared before everyone's eyes. When the speedboats returned to the mooring point, even Kong Zhenghui, with his explosive psychological quality, let out a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Damn, we're finally back. That hour and a half felt like a century," Su Tianbei cursed as he got off the boat. "I wasn't this nervous even when I was fighting Lu Feng."
This was no lie. Sometimes courage is a very strange thing. Some people might be desperate in a fight, but if you ask them to steal something, they wouldn't dare, lacking the psychological quality for it.
Everyone got off the speedboats and then moved the goods onto three trucks specially used by the dirty gang. Then Su Tianyu called out: "Let's go, withdraw."
"Hurry, get in the cars!" Bai Hongbo also called out.
"Leave a few people to take the speedboats back to the third floor and clean up any traces," Kong Zhenghui instructed.
"I... I'll stay," Daxiong seemed to really value this extra job, performing very diligently throughout, not speaking, just working. He could be said to be a very nice employee.
"Alright, you stay and wrap things up," Su Tianyu opened the car door and said softly. "The rest of us will move the goods first."
Just as he finished speaking and everyone was about to get in the cars and leave, the sound of engines suddenly arose from the wilderness road on the left.
Su Tianyu looked up towards the distance and saw the headlights of two cars sweeping over.
"Fuck your mother, it's the maritime police, run!" Bai Hongbo shouted and was about to flee.
"Damn, don't talk nonsense, the maritime police wouldn't come with just two cars," Su Tianbei cursed. "What are you panicking for!"
Hearing this, Bai Hongbo stopped in his tracks and hid beside the car, looking towards the road entrance.
Two cars came hurriedly and stopped in front of the trucks.
The glare of the headlights was dazzling as seven or eight burly men got out of the two SUVs. The leader was about 1.75 meters tall, with a crew cut, square face, thick eyebrows, and a very spirited appearance. He was extremely muscular and walked over with steady steps.
"So it really is the dirty gang's cars," Square Face glanced at the trucks and walked up to Bai Hongbo, saying in a flat tone: "Brothers, you've crossed the line, haven't you?"
"Who are you?" Bai Hongbo saw that they weren't maritime police, and there were only seven or eight of them, so his气势 immediately rose.
"We eat on the roads. You're doing business at sea without even saying hello, isn't that a bit disrespectful?" A young man beside Square Face said with his hands behind his back and a smile: "Leave the goods, people can go. Tell your boss to come pick them up later."
"Who are you to confiscate our goods?!" Even Bai Hongbo, as stupid as he was, could understand that these people in front of them must also be operating on the roads and had come to extort them.
"I said, leave the goods, people can go," the young man repeated.
"I'll leave your mother!" Bai Hongbo saw that they were few in number and didn't care about them at all, just stepping forward: "Get out of the way!"
As he spoke, two of Bai's family members pulled out daggers from their clothes and surrounded them, while Su Tianbei, Kong Zhenghui, and others also stepped forward.
"You still want to fight?" The young man looked sideways at Bai Hongbo and demanded.
"I told you to get out of the way!" Bai Hongbo said with a dark face, reaching out to push the crew-cut man.
"Slap!"
The crew-cut man raised his hand to knock away Bai Hongbo's wrist and quickly kicked him in the abdomen.
"Thud!"
Bai Hongbo, weighing at least 180 pounds, was kicked down with one foot.
"Fuck your mother!" The Bai family member on the left stabbed at the crew-cut man with his knife.
"Slap!"
The crew-cut man didn't move his left hand, just sidestepped, his right hand gripping the Bai family member's wrist, twisting it down with a crack, and directly kneeing him in the abdomen.
"Thud!"
The young man with the knife fell to the ground at an angle.
The crew-cut man's movements were fluid as he stepped back once, avoiding the position of another person, his right arm forming an elbow that fiercely struck the side of the head of the last Bai family member.
"Bang!"
The young man was hit so hard his eyes saw stars, his back hitting the car, but he didn't fall down.
Su Tianbei and the others were stunned for a moment, then grabbed their weapons and were about to charge forward.
The crew-cut man stood still, while the young man beside him pulled out a shiny black handgun and directly pressed it against Su Tianbei's head, saying in a casual tone: "Fuck your mother! Are you blind? Do you know who he is? This is Wei Xiangzuo, the sitting hall master of the Zha'nan Dock Gang! You still dare to fight here, are you tired of living?!"