Maverick Chef - Chapter 39：He San Qing Plays His Cards

At this moment, Bai Lu was torturing people in the room for his own pleasure. “You could have chosen to be a good man, but you would rather be a dog. Here’s a reminder for you.” With a single step, he broke someone’s leg and extracted screams of pain.

“You want to fight right? Someone paid you a little money, and you want to risk your life for him? Here’s a gift from me.” He stomped his feet and broke someone else’s leg.

The third guy was traumatized, and he said, “Big Brother, Big Brother, please let me go. I have learned my lesson. When I go out, I will return home and toil the fields. I will never fight ever again.”

Bai Lu asked, “Are you serious?”

“Serious.”

“Ok, I trust you.” Bai Lu retrieved the stool and sat down. He let that guy go.

The other two fellows with their legs broken almost cried to death. If they had known from the beginning that begging for mercy would work, then why was there a need to have their legs broken?

The chief of the police station rushed in with a gun. He aimed at Bai Lu and said, “Turn around and kneel on the ground.”

Bai Lu slowly stood up. A glimmer of murderous intent flashed in his eyes, but yet he maintained his smiling expression and said, “Do you dare to pull the trigger?”

“Shut up. Turn around and kneel down.” Looking at the casualties on the ground, the chief was a little frustrated. He thought, “How could it end up like this?”

Bai Lu smiled and nodded his head. “Alright. Ok. Sure.” He shifted his weight slightly, which looked like he was turning around slowly. Suddenly, his left leg tightened, and he turned back swiftly. He raised his handcuffs and swung down in one quick motion. It landed on the head of the station chief and the guy fell to the floor with a loud thud. The gun was also dropped on the ground.

It was not because the station chief hesitated to pull the trigger. But instead, it was merely because Bai Lu was moving with such high velocity, that he was not able to react in time.

Bai Lu picked up the gun and looked outside the room expressionlessly.

Six or seven police officers were standing outside who seemed to have become stupid. They thought, “Damn it. This place is the Northern City, and not a Hollywood blockbuster movie. How could there be such a troublemaker in the police station?” With a booming sound, they scampered away to retrieve their guns.

Looking at the gun in his hands, Bai Lu unloaded the magazine with great familiarity. He emptied the bullets and threw the gun into the corner. He put both of his hands together and wriggled slightly. The handcuffs fell off with ease. Then he dragged the station chief over and handcuffed him. And he sat back down onto the stool.

“What the hell. Is this guy an idiot? He assaulted the cop and stole his weapon, but he is still not leaving?” The three unlucky fools with broken limbs looked at him with expressions of bewilderment.

There were two surveillance cameras in the room. If there were no unexpected occurrences, then everything that has happened previously would not have been recorded. In the police station, if the cops wanted to do something dirty, they would naturally turn off the surveillance cameras. Therefore, Bai Lu was unabashed by his brutal acts of torture.

In reality, it didn’t matter if the cameras were recording. That would actually be beneficial for him.

Half a minute later, the group of police officers gathered outside the door. Someone shouted, “Whoever is in the room, listen up! Abandon your weapon now…”

Bai Lu pouted his lips and cursed in his heart. “He San Qing, you idiot. Why are you taking so long to come here? What in the world are you doing right now?”

Seeing how the cops were behaving like they were facing a monstrous enemy, Bai Lu had a strong urge in his heart to re-enact a mischievous scene of seizing the hostages. But then again, this was the police station, so he did not want to be too conceited. He sighed and stood up. Then he kicked the gun in the corner towards the door. With both hands raised up high, he turned around and stood still.

Seeing how compliant this person was, the cops rushed in swiftly to apprehend him. They pressed him down on the ground and put on the handcuffs. After they confirmed that this guy was no longer a threat, they dragged the station chief and the whole room of casualties out. Then they locked Bai Lu in the steel cage.

The steel cage was a marvelous contraption. It was 1.2m high, 1m wide, and slightly longer in depth. And it was suspended 10cm off the ground. The entire steel cage was constructed by welding steel reinforcing bars together one by one. It was designed so that the buttocks would be pressed painfully against the bars when sitting down inside. There was no room to lie down comfortably, so it was a tormenting ordeal.

Bai Lu grew up in prison, so he was familiar with such contraptions. After he crawled into it, he curled up his body and fell asleep.

This time around, he was in a more severe situation. All his belongings were confiscated, and even his belt was removed. Bai Lu was not allowed to communicate with the outside world, and he could only wait for that annoying He San Qing to appear.

He San Qing did not show up, but Gai Le’s father appeared. He was a stout and awe-inspiring middle-aged man. When he entered the room, he squatted beside Bai Lu. Through the steel cage, he said to him, “Sir. You, sir.”

Bai Lu sat up and said, “What do you want?”

“My name is Gai Yong Guo, and I am Gai Le’s father. Sir, if I may I ask, what is your name?”

“My name is Bai Lu.”

“Mr. Bai, it is like this. I do not know how my son has offended you, but I want to apologize on his behalf. If you need any compensation, please feel free to ask. I hope that you can be magnanimous and forgive us.” Gai Yong Guo dropped his posture in a very humble manner.

Bai Lu did not respond. He stared at the lock on the steel cage in a daze.

Gai Yong Guo said immediately, “Mr. Bai, I have already informed someone to look for the station chief so that you may be released right away. Please wait a little while longer.”

As he was speaking, the room opened again, and the middle-aged man that was seen previously walked in. Behind him, there was a large fatso.

The middle-aged man said to the fatso, “Chief Wu, sorry to trouble you.

Chief Wu said, “Not at all. This man cannot be released. He has assaulted a police officer. Chief Liu is still in a coma.”

Gai Yong Guo listened, and he thought, “Damn it. If you do not release this man, what else could I do?” He dragged Chief Wu out of the house. After 10 minutes, both of them returned.

The fatso Chief Wu said, “Get him out of the cage first.” But he did not say that he would release Bai Lu from the station.

A police officer went to unlock the cage. When he opened the door of the steel cage, Bai Lu did not budge an inch. “What do you mean by getting me out? Am I released or not released?”

“My apologies. I apologize for the misunderstanding. Yong Jia, come over and apologize.”

The middle-aged man was Gai Yong Guo’s little brother. His name was Gai Yong Jia, and he walked over with an expression of grievance. “I am sorry. I hope that such a great man like you can forgive our mistakes. Please let us go this one time.”

“I wonder what He San Qing has done to drive Gai Yong Guo into behaving like this,” Bai Lu thought. Then he said, “Give me the phone.”

Gai Yong Jia hurriedly retrieved Bai Lu’s belongings. Then Bai Lu took out his phone and gave He San Qing a call.

Once the call was connected, He San Qing started laughing. “Why are you not in the restaurant? Where are you now? I wanted to invite you to watch an interesting show.”

“This son of a bitch. He had no clue at all that I was captured,” Bai Lu thought, and with an icy voice, he said, “What do you mean by an interesting show? Shouldn’t you be checking if Le Miao Miao and Liu Chen have been released or not?”

“What? Have they been arrested? What the hell. Gai Le, that little squirt. He better not let me find him. Wait for my call.” He San Qing hung up the call.

From this short conversation, it was quickly apparent that Gai Yong Guo still had no idea who he has offended. Bai Lu held the phone in his hand and asked, “Why did you look for me?”

Ever since he met Bai Lu, he has been wondering if this was the guy that was causing him trouble.

He just came back from the hospital. His son had explained everything to him: He was responsible for offending Le Miao Miao and a particular chef; Le Miao Miao was arrested, and this chef severely injured him; He wanted Gai Yong Guo to teach this chef a lesson.

But there was no way that Gai Yong Guo could take out Bai Lu.

He was a business owner in the technology manufacturing industry. Since the afternoon, seven departmental stores and four supermarkets wanted to purge his retail products from the shelf. Three of his suppliers also urged him to make the payment for goods, and the banks pressured him to service his loan. If it were only these few matters, then it would still be manageable for him.

The problem was that there was the inspection by the Industry and Commerce Joint Law Enforcement. Also, people from the taxation office came by to check the accounts of his company. Even the fire department also sent some people to make a scene. In less than an hour, there were a vast collection of official seals that were pasted all over the doors of the company.

It was not only his company that was being investigated, but even his wife’s beauty parlor was also implicated. The Consumers Association came by to investigate counterfeit and inferior products, and the Ministry of Health requested for the health certificate of her beauty parlor. The police station also demanded their temporary residence permit. In other words, she was also out of business.

From these series of unfortunate events, it was clear that someone was out to get them. The couple did not know what had happened as they did not offend anyone. They hurriedly called for help from their list of contacts, but after asking around, no one had any idea about the real reason for this incident. All that the couple has found out was that those people had received orders from their superiors.

Someone advised him that he must have offended someone, so he should hurry and apologize to that person. Once that was settled, the issue would naturally be resolved.

Gai Yong Guo and his wife hustled for 20 years, and it was not an easy feat to achieve their current results. They could not bear to let their efforts all go to waste. After contemplating about it, if they were innocent, then it must be their good-for-nothing son that have caused the trouble. That was why he had called Gai Le previously, and launched a barrage of insults at him.

Coincidentally, Bai Lu was tormenting Gai Le at that moment. Also, Bai Lu casually informed him that his son had broken his leg.

When Gai Yong Guo and his wife rushed to the hospital, they saw the level of injury that their son had sustained. After hearing from him the story behind the entire incident, they did not even have to think about it, as it was clear that the chef was responsible for all of this.

It was still a mystery why this chef possessed such a terrifying power; He was also uncertain whether or not this chef was the one responsible for orchestrating the entire incident. However, judging from the desperate situation, he had no choice but to keep trying everything that he could. Gai Yong Guo could not think of anyone else that would be responsible for this, so he had no choice but to negotiate with Bai Lu. Thus, he rushed to the police station near the Arts School Road.

When he had arrived at the police station, he saw his little brother, Gai Yong Jia. His brother had received a call from Gai Le. After he heard that his nephew was beaten up, he immediately asked his contacts for help to address this grievance. Never did he expect that he would be defeated by Bai Lu instead.

When Gai Yong Guo found out a little bit more about the incident from his brother, he scolded him and said that he was a pig. Then he asked him to plead with the Deputy Chief of the police station to release Bai Lu. He also came personally to apologize to Bai Lu.

After hearing the question from Bai Lu, Gai Yong Guo was at a loss for words. He could only focus on correcting their animosity and he decided to admit defeat. “My son has truly offended you. For that, I apologize on his behalf, and I would also not press charges against you. Please be magnanimous. I hope that you can forgive us, and free up our companies.”

When Bai Lu saw that this guy was being pushed to desperation, he sighed deeply in his heart. “He San Qing and his friends are brutal. They almost wiped his entire family.”

If Bai Lu were responsible for this incident, he would also come up with various unorthodox methods, but the simplest would be to use poison and send Gai Le into the hospital. After torturing him for a year or two, he would assess his personality again and decide.

However, since He San Qing had already played his cards, there must be a subsequent move. Bai Lu did not have to do anything, and he just had to wait for new updates.

After two minutes, He San Qing called back again, and he said, “Gai Le has retracted his accusation. Le Miao Miao and Liu Chen have also been released. That silly girl really caused a lot of trouble. I had specifically instructed her not to tell you about this incident, but she just had to tell you about it. Now you know why I was unwilling to deal with her right? Oh yes, do you have any idea what excuses that imbecile had used to arrest you? He claimed that you, Le Miao Miao, and Liu Chen had stolen something from his house. Are you aware that he wants to target you?”

“Gai Le wanted to target me?” Bai Lu said, and he thought, “No wonder he caused such a huge commotion, it was all a ruse that he had prepared for me.” Bai Lu smiled and said to Gai Yong Guo, “Your son is out to get me. First, he accused me. Then, he assaulted me. Now he even wants to arrest me. How do you think I could suppress this anger in my heart?”

After he declared these words, he said through the phone, “What do you want to do?”

“I want to destroy Gai Le, but I could not find that person.” He San Qing was a little depressed. After he deployed this large-scale battle formation, if he still could not find the enemy, then it would be truly embarrassing.

When He San Qing wanted to look for Gai Le, it was at the same time that Gai Le had gone to cause trouble for Le Miao Miao. Naturally, he could not find him. Afterward, Gai Le was heavily injured by Bai Lu and sent to the hospital, so of course, He San Qing could not find him.

Bai Lu smiled, and he said, “He is now at the hospital, with his legs broken. Gai Yong Guo is now standing in front of me. What do you want to do?”

“I don’t know.” He San Qing hung up the phone. He had to contemplate his next move.