Elder brother's garrison

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“Information…” Ooi and Kitakami exchanged a glance. “Hmm… Ah!”

Ooi clapped his hands gently.

"If it's just a little bit... before Bei Shang and I reached an agreement with them, we overheard them talking to their boss on the phone."

"Oh! Did you hear something?"

“Yes, I heard that.” Daijing nodded. “I heard them call their boss ‘General Manager Jiang’.”

"President Jiang?" Xiao Bai was taken aback, then thought for a long time.

General Jiang...

Ok……

This name...

That sounds familiar...

Chapter 1335 This is the power of the business (6000 words)

General Jiang.

Xiao Bai thought about it for a moment.

The person I'm meeting tonight at 8 PM... I think he's also called President Jiang?

Xiao Bai remembered that when Commander Huai Ren was on the phone, he seemed to have addressed the man who answered the phone as "General Manager Jiang"...

Xiao Bai pondered for a while.

Hmm... Could it be that the boss behind this loan sharking organization and the boss who sells deep-sea information are the same person?

"Admiral? What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell? Why are you suddenly not talking?" Ooi and Kitakami looked at Shiro suddenly lowering his head in thought and couldn't help but feel curious.

"Ah, I'm fine... But, Oi and Kitakami, besides the boss's name, did you hear anything else useful?" Xiaobai shook her head and continued to ask Oi and Kitakami.

"Well... there shouldn't be any other valuable information." Kitakami sighed. "When they contacted their boss, Ooi and I also activated the ship girl's hearing to eavesdrop, but in that call, those people just told their boss about the situation at the time. Their boss seemed to be very busy and didn't pay any more attention to them. He just told them the usual rule and hung up the phone in a hurry."

“…Oh.” Xiaobai nodded with some disappointment.

makes sense.

It's highly unlikely that you could extract a lot of information from a simple debt collection phone call.

After all, not everyone is Sherlock Holmes.

Rather, it's quite remarkable that Ooi and Kitakami were clever enough to activate their ship girl hearing under those circumstances and eavesdrop on how their subordinates addressed their boss.

commendable.

—General Jiang.

It's unclear whether this so-called loan shark boss, Mr. Jiang, is the same person as the boss who sells deep-sea information...

After all, there are many people in the world who share the same name, let alone the same surname.

Guang Xiaobai has had several classmates named Yang Yang in all the classes she's attended since she was a child.

"Admiral? Have you discovered something?"

Ooi and Kitakami asked Xiaobai.

“Well, Ooji and Kitakami, listen to me, I might—just might—I might know that Mr. Jiang you mentioned.” Xiaobai looked up at Ooji and Kitakami and said.

"Huh?!" Ooi exclaimed in surprise. "Admiral, aren't you supposed to be a law-abiding citizen? How come you're connected with these people?"

"Uh... well, how should I put it..." Xiaobai scratched his cheek awkwardly, "Don't worry, it's not what you think. I'm in a special situation right now, I guess. I came to Fish City to find him."

"Oh... since you know that guy called General Jiang, Admiral, could you ask him to give you face and let Xiaoyu's father go?" Ooi suddenly had a bright idea.

"Well... I'm not sure if the Mr. Jiang you're talking about is the same Mr. Jiang I'm looking for... And even if it is, my current situation doesn't make it convenient for him to give me face." Xiaobai scratched his cheek.

"Huh? We're a rookie naval base, aren't we?"

"Uh... well, actually, I didn't contact him as an admiral..." Xiaobai smiled awkwardly.

Oi and Kitakami were stunned for a moment.

"Admiral... could it be... a sting operation?" Kitagawa was the first to react, and she asked Xiaobai curiously.

"..." Xiaobai pursed her lips and nodded at the two of them.

"I see!" Bei Shang exclaimed in sudden realization, letting out a soft sigh of relief. "That's great!"

"What's so great?" Daii looked at Kitakami with a confused expression, seemingly not understanding what Xiaobai had just said.

"Simply put, the admiral is here as an undercover agent to crack down on the criminal gangs in Fish City," Kitakami said, pointing to his lips with his finger.

"Ah! I see!" Daijing's eyes lit up, and her gaze towards Xiaobai was instantly filled with sparkling light.

"That's why the Admiral said it's inconvenient to contact that General Jiang... After all, the Admiral is here as an undercover agent, and to avoid alerting the enemy, he should keep a low profile as much as possible," Kitagami said.

"Hmm...that's roughly the idea..." Xiaobai scratched his head. "Ah, of course, it doesn't mean I'm completely ignoring this matter. When I go to see that General Manager Jiang tonight, I'll try my best to find out about the loan shark organization."

"Then may I ask if we can come along?" Bei Shang asked Xiao Bai for her opinion.

"Of course."

"Thank you, Admiral." Kitakami gave Shiro a relaxed smile.

"Let's put tonight's plans aside for now. What we have in front of us now is... the dark mahjong game later." Xiaobai said softly, tapping on her phone.

"Admiral, would you like me and Ooi to give you a little lesson in mahjong?" Kitakami stepped forward.

"Ah...it probably won't be very effective if we try to cram at the last minute, right? Maybe we shouldn't bother. Beishang, you should take better care of Xiaoyu." Xiaobai smiled at Beishang. "I'll go make a call first."

"Call up?"

"Okay, I'll go find a company to borrow some good luck..." Xiaobai ran off with her phone in hand.

"..." Go north to Dajing.

Speaking of mahjong.

Xiao Bai naturally remembered the company's super-powered mahjong player.

She is a terrifying figure who can drive highly skilled mahjong veterans to despair and then inspire them to enlightenment.

Xiaobai naturally craves the company's help.

However, there is only a little over an hour left before the Dark Mahjong game begins.

Even if the rookie naval base goes all out, it's impossible to deliver Enterprise to her within an hour in such a short time.

Although the company itself can't come to Fish City, it can at least borrow some good luck from her by phone.

The effect is definitely better than temporary tutoring in mahjong skills.

It seems that debt collectors came this morning.

Throughout the entire morning, hardly anyone appeared in the courtyard of the residential area; the residents mostly stayed indoors, afraid to show their faces.

A large area appeared to be completely quiet.

After finishing his call with the company and receiving a one-hour spell buff, Xiaobai returned to Dajing and Beishang's side.

While Xiaobai was on the phone, Dajing and Beishang dragged a large round table out of their house, found an open space, and set it up, thus creating a simple mahjong table.

Time passes slowly.

Before we knew it, it was 11 a.m.

Just as the time on Xiaobai's phone screen jumped to 11 o'clock, the sound of an engine, growing louder as it approached, rang out outside the residential area.

Under the watchful eyes of Xiaobai and the others, a bright white van sped into the residential area with a screeching sound. Not far away...

A crunch.

The car door opens.

Several bald, burly men with a thuggish air, wearing black vests and covered in exaggerated, dark tattoos on their arms, jumped out of the car and surrounded Xiaobai, Dajing, and the others amidst a clattering sound.

Ooi and Kitakami frowned slightly. They stepped forward, shielding Xiaobai and Xiaoyu behind them, and stared at the men around them with displeasure.

"You...are you here to play mahjong?"

Oi shouted at the men around him with unfriendly expressions.

"Don't be in such a hurry, miss. Didn't you see we didn't bring any weapons with us?" A leisurely voice rang out from behind the men.

Xiao Bai looked in the direction of the sound.

The sound was coming from inside the van.

Right under Xiaobai's watchful eye.

The passenger door of the van opened slowly.

A well-mannered man in a suit stepped out of the car, leaning on the door handle, and walked towards Oi and Kitakami with squinting eyes.

The men surrounding Xiaobai and the others spontaneously parted to make way for them.

"Ladies, it's been a whole morning. Have you found your third mahjong partner yet?" The refined-looking man walked to a spot not far from Dajing and Beishang, looking at them with a friendly expression. "Let me see, is it Uncle Wang from West Street or Grandma Li from South Street?"

"Don't think I don't know you threatened the mahjong parlors around here to stop them from helping me, you bastard..." Da Jing stomped his foot angrily, just about to start cursing, when Bei Shang grabbed Da Jing's hand and shook his head at Da Jing.

Dai-i took a deep breath, opened his mouth silently, and finally stood behind Kitakami.

“We’ve found a reliable third candidate. It’s this one.” Bei Shang gently patted Xiao Bai on the shoulder and said to the refined man in the suit.

"Oh ho..." The man in the suit glanced at Xiaobai and a smirk appeared on his lips. "The contestant you found... really is the style of the two young ladies... Which middle school student is he?"

"You don't seem to have any restrictions on what kind of people we have to find, do you?" Bei Shang asked.

"That makes sense. Enough with the small talk, let's begin..."

"Release Xiaoyu's father first," Bei Shang said to the man in the suit.

"..." The man in the suit and Bei Shang stared at each other for a moment, then he gave a soft hum and clapped his hands.

The back door of the van opened again, and one or two burly men carried a person out of the vehicle.

A person tied to a chair.

Xiao Bai looked at the man who was tied to the chair.

This was a middle-aged man with graying hair, not tall or fat, with a withered face from long-term hard work. He was tied to a chair, seemingly not having been beaten, but his mouth was covered with thick tape, and his whole body was bound with thick hemp rope. His personal freedom had been completely taken away, and he could only stare with a pair of weathered eyes, making muffled sounds as he looked at Xiaoyu behind Dajing.

"Dad!" Xiaoyu saw her father and immediately wanted to run towards him.

"Xiaoyu, go back quickly!" Dajing hurriedly pulled Xiaoyu behind him, then looked at the man in the suit with displeasure.

"Please don't look at me like that, miss. Don't worry, we're in the business too. While I can't say I'm a saint, I at least follow our own rules. Rules are more important than anything, aren't they? So, we won't lay a finger on this man until we finish the mahjong game." The man in the suit beckoned, and Xiaoyu's father was carried to his side. He rubbed Xiaoyu's father's head, glanced at Dajing and Beishang, and said, "So, ladies... I also hope you'll follow the rules."

"Follow the rules? Of course, no problem." Dai-i nodded, pointing to the table behind him. "Then let's cut to the chase and play mahjong!"

The man in the suit glanced at the round table and chuckled softly.

"it is good."

The man in the suit clapped his hands, and a burly man next to him carried a combination lock box to the mahjong table, entered a password, and then poured out a table full of mahjong tiles from the box.

"These are standard mahjong sets used in the Fish City Mahjong Competition. Would you two ladies like to inspect them?" the man in the suit said with a smile, pointing to a table of mahjong sets.

Ooi and Kitakami walked to the table and carefully inspected the mahjong tiles on it.

"Yes, there are no markings, it's a normal mahjong set." Bei Shang nodded.

“Like I said, we're very particular about the rules.” The man in the suit said, lightly tugging at his tie and clearing his throat. “Ladies, shall we begin the mahjong game?”

"Okay...where's the person you were looking for?" Bei Shang looked at the man in the suit, "That guy from the dark mahjong world, the Riichi Mahjong Hero?"

"..." The man in the suit smiled.

"What are you laughing at all of a sudden?" Dai-i frowned.

"Ladies, haven't you ever wondered why we agreed to settle this with a game of mahjong?" the man in the suit asked with a smile.

"?" Ooi tilted his head.

"Isn't it because of the tradition of Fish City?" Bei Shang asked.

“Tradition… Hmm, well said, mahjong is indeed a tradition of Fish City.” The man in the suit smiled. “But there are other reasons why we agreed to settle the matter with mahjong.”

"What's the reason?"

“That’s because we have unwavering confidence…and interest,” the man in the suit grinned. “Because I also enjoy playing mahjong.”