護花近衛 - 第1313章 搗毀地下拳場 - 翰墨軒

Kang Jingming had agreed with full confidence, yet once it came to actually carrying the thing out, he found himself in a fix. He knew exactly what he was capable of. The previous formula had been obtained through nothing more than the old trick of bribery — he had corrupted Kang Xiaofeng, vice president of Doctor Guan Pharmaceutical, and walked off with the recipe for the wound-healing ointment.

But that method was useless against Guan Xuewen. Guan Xuewen would never take money and hand the formula over — would that not make him a fool? So Kang Jingming had to find some other way.

Still, a man like Guan Xuewen would never part with the formula lightly; unless he was entirely willing of his own accord, he would absolutely not hand it over.

If he could sweep Guan Xin off her feet and then set her to stealing the formula, Kang Jingming was fairly confident he could manage it. In his view, women in love were blind and stupid — had that not been exactly the case with little Xiaofen?

But Guan Xin had been betrothed since before she was even born, which left Kang Jingming without a shred of chance. A girl of Guan Xin's temperament, bound by a marriage contract, would never touch another man before the wedding — and that left Kang Jingming quite at his wits' end.

Guan Xin was out of the question, and so was Guan Xuewen — this was becoming a genuinely vexing problem.

Kang Jingming may have been fretting inside, but he let nothing of it show. He simply left the Kang residence with an impassive face and went off to seek out Zhu Xiaozhang and Wang Shubin to talk the problem over.

And Kang Jinglong, watching Kang Jingming's retreating back, felt a shadow pass across his eyes. He had to do something. Kang Jingming's quest for the formula had to succeed — but once it had, how on earth could he be made to give up his claim to the position of family head?

That, however, was a thorny problem, and Kang Jinglong sank into thought...

Once the exact address of the underground boxing ring was in hand, Qiu Lingshan mobilized a massive force of police and, without a sound, ringed the place so tightly that not a drop of water could leak through.

Qiu Lingshan's operation may have been covert, but the ring's own security was tight as well. Ever since Er Goudan had thrown the place into chaos in that earlier brawl, An Liwen had been more than a little spooked. If men like that came through the underground ring a few more times, there would be no point in keeping it open — everyone would have been beaten to death.

So An Liwen had Xiao Luozi's men pose as ordinary passers-by and plant hidden sentries at several key road junctions leading to the ring — and when the convoy of police cars came roaring in, the sentries naturally messaged Xiao Luozi at once.

"Young Master Wen, this is bad — a huge force of police is heading straight for the underground ring!" Xiao Luozi went white as a sheet the moment his men's report came in.

"What? Police are coming?" An Liwen turned ashen at the news. "You're joking — how could the police have found this place?"

Xiao Luozi was frustrated too. He had long foreseen that this day would come, but surely it had arrived too fast! His mission was to be the fall guy the Fire Wolf Gang had sent to take the blame for An Liwen — every criminal act committed at the underground ring would be laid on his shoulders alone. As for his family, arrangements had been made long ago, so he had been prepared in his heart for some time; it was only that he hadn't yet had his fill of enjoying himself. Still, now that the moment had come, willing or not, he had to step forward.

He knew only too well how ruthless the Fire Wolf Gang was. If he handed An Liwen over, his family would suffer the gang's harshest reprisals. So he had to shoulder the entire blame himself.