Chapter 428 — Catching a Few Thieves
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"Quiet! Stop shouting!" Zou Tiandi nearly exploded with rage. Why was he yelling? What if Wei Zhao heard?
The guard was stunned, not understanding what was going on, but then guessed—could it be that Zou Tiandi had brought people here incognito to inspect the market?
The more the guard thought about it, the more likely it seemed, so he nodded vigorously. "All right... I won't say anything..."
Zou Tiandi and Bu Ruoming slipped into the manager's office like ghosts. Xie Fenpian, the manager of the flower-bird-fish market, had just received a report from the head of his security team: they had caught a cheat and two little girls, and had already looked into their backgrounds—they had merely come in a beat-up van, definitely no one of consequence!
So Xie Fenpian prepared to go down and take some liberties—stealing a phone, after all... then he'd just have them strip off their clothes for a body search! That was exactly the sort of thing Xie Fenpian loved doing! Of course, anything more outrageous he still dared not attempt, for fear of trouble; but searching the bodies of caught thieves, though a bit excessive, wouldn't land him in any real trouble. Xie Fenpian was getting excited when he looked up and saw Zou Tiandi and Bu Ruoming burst in—and jumped in fright! Could they have found out what he was up to?
Still, from what Xie Fenpian knew, Zou Tiandi was no good either—he specialized in preying on the young women in the company. As the saying goes, when the beam is crooked, the rafters are askew—that was exactly the principle at work.
The whole Bu Tiandi family—Bu Ruoguang and Bu Ruoming, and his underlings too—were a bad lot, every one of them. The reason Xie Fenpian dared to act so recklessly was precisely because Bu Ruoguang indulged him!
He had once been a local thug in the North District; only because Bu Ruoguang thought highly of him had he been made manager of this market.
The thought that Bu Tiandi was cast from the same mold actually left Xie Fenpian unafraid: "President Bu, you're here—perfect timing. There's good news I was hoping Brother Guang could pass on to you!"
"Good news?" Bu Tiandi was taken aback. He was in a foul mood just then, and if some good news could offset it, it might lift his spirits a little.
"The security department caught a few thieves, and there are some pretty girls among them. Would you like to go search them, President Bu?" Xie Fenpian said, his voice dripping with lewd intent.
"Oh? Have their backgrounds been checked?" Bu Tiandi asked, startled, something stirring in his heart. This was one of his hobbies—if there really was no problem, he could vent his anger on these thieves.
"No background at all. The lot of them came in a beat-up minivan, so broken it looked like something picked out of a junkyard. There's absolutely no way they have any background!" Xie Fenpian said.
"Wait! What did you say? A beat-up minivan?" Bu Tiandi was startled. He had just been frightened out of his wits by Wei Zhao's beat-up van, and at the sudden mention of a beat-up minivan from Xie Fenpian, his nerves went haywire and he nearly jumped out of his skin: "Who are the thieves you caught? Tell me quickly—who are they!"