護花近衛 - 第360章 跪CPU - 翰墨軒

"Hello there, Mr. Su. That is quite a lovely name you have..." An Liwen broke out in a light sweat as he heard it. A name like that really did have some punch. "Heh heh..." Su Jiaonang laughed. "Same clan as that Young Master Su inside. Set your heart at ease, Young Master An — this room is thoroughly soundproofed. We cannot hear the least sound from in there either, can we?" An Liwen nodded, and only then spoke. "Brother Cihua, I am sure you are clear about what sort of trade my family is in. Songshan used to be my elder brother's ground; I do not concern myself with how he ran things. But you, Brother Cihua, are the man who holds up the whole Songshan underworld, and your name has been in my ears a long while! That is why I came specially to call on you!" Whatever else might be said, the words settled very pleasantly on Li Cihua's ears. Li Cihua knew perfectly well what trade the An family plied — trafficking in human organs! Yet back when An Liwen's elder brother, An Jiande, had been around, he had never once come to call on Li Cihua. Relying on the mid-Yellow-Rank fighter under his command, he had not given Li Cihua so much as a glance. Still, in those days An Jiande's business had been the straightforward sort, cash in one hand and goods in the other. Illegal, yes, but it had little to do with the underworld, and Li Cihua had kept his own well water to himself and let the river run its own way; he had no wish to make an enemy of the man. A mid-Yellow-Rank fighter was not to be taken lightly, after all, and though Li Cihua had even stronger men behind him, there was no need for the two of them to fight to the death. Even if he had disposed of An Jiande, he could never have laid a finger on the man's business — he had never dealt in the organ trade at all, had neither supplier nor buyer, nor any channel to sell through. For all that, Li Cihua was still a little sore about it. In Songshan City, to run an illegal trade and never once come to bow at his mountain gate — that was a loss of face! Even if they would not pay a cut, the least they could do was stand him a round of drinks and say a word or two! So the fact that An Liwen had come of his own accord to pay his respects left Li Cihua thoroughly pleased. "Heh heh, Young Master Wen, I am glad you have that much sense in you! Rest assured, in Songshan there is no man I, Li Cihua, cannot square away, and no matter I cannot settle! If anything comes up in the future, just speak up!" Li Cihua said with a swagger. But plainly he was blowing smoke. Wei Zhao, to name one, he had not squared away — and not only had he failed to square the man away, he had lost two Yellow-Rank fighters into the bargain, a loss that had stung him to the bone. "No... Brother Cihua, this visit is not merely to call on you. I have come to talk about working together!" An Liwen waved a hand and smiled. "Working together?" Li Cihua was briefly startled. What was there between the two of them to work on together? "Brother Cihua, you know as well as anyone that fewer and fewer people are willing to sell a kidney these days. People are not fools anymore. Back when my brother was in the trade, he would talk them round, telling them that losing one kidney changed nothing, that it did them no harm — but the truth is that anyone who loses a kidney sees their health decline. Nobody falls for it now!" An Liwen said helplessly. "So I intend to go after the vagrants and the beggars... and to do that on Songshan's ground, I naturally cannot go around you, Brother Cihua!" Li Cihua nodded. This An Liwen was rather sharp. If it were merely buying and selling organs, he truly had no way in; but if a man was going to snatch people from his own ground without so much as a nod to him, that came a little too close to treating him as though he did not exist. "Your idea has some merit. Those beggars and vagrants — even if they vanish, no one will notice." Li Cihua nodded. "What do you want me to do? Help you grab the people,