Sold for 300, I Fight Back with Superpowers

The matter with Master Zhang was resolved. As for the follow-up on the plantation, Li Fenghuo and Gu Xinsheng were handling it. The situation with Qiutian was currently at a stalemate in negotiations, but Su Qing didn’t plan to interfere for now. After all, she intended to strike at the root of the problem, and it wasn’t the right time yet. Moreover, Su Mei hadn’t come to harass Li Wan again. So, after returning from Xiangcheng, Su Qing had little else to worry about and began to diligently attend her classes.

There was no news from Meng Chenghui, either; he seemed to have given up. Su Qing attended class, laughing and joking with her dorm mates, and her moments with Meng Yanjing were peaceful and serene.

However, what Su Qing didn’t know was that Hua Zifeng and his assistant had already arrived on the mainland and were on a train to Beijing.

In the train’s sleeper compartment, the assistant saw Hua Zifeng hunched over a small table with a notebook, scribbling and doodling nonstop. He couldn’t help but ask, ”Mr. Hua, have you come up with a new idea?”

Although the sleeper compartment was a four-person cabin, only Hua Zifeng and his assistant were currently inside.

Hua Zifeng shook his head. ”No new ideas yet, but I do have some new directions.”

The assistant paused. ”Mr. Hua, you’re referring to what was discovered in Kongkan Prefecture about the prior movements of Little Master Wen and his group, aren’t you?”

”Yes.” Hua Zifeng nodded, his brows furrowing deeply.

He had always held Master Wen and Master Sun of Xiangcheng in high esteem. Naturally, this respect extended to Master Wen’s disciple, Little Master Wen, through a kind of ”love me, love my dog” affection. He saw him through a filter, believing Little Master Wen was just as skilled and beloved by the people as Master Wen.

And based on what he knew before, Little Master Wen had indeed been just as he’d imagined—deeply beloved by the locals. Because Little Master Wen frequently distributed peace charms, the local populace held him in high regard.

He had assumed that was the truth of the matter.

But what the investigation in Kongkan Prefecture had uncovered this time was a harsh slap in the face.

Previously, Little Master Wen and his entourage had enjoyed an excellent reputation in Kongkan Prefecture, so the local police department naturally wouldn’t have investigated them. Moreover, thanks to their charitable act of distributing peace charms, everyone instinctively believed them to be people of noble character.

However, this new investigation uncovered quite a lot, and since there was little resistance, it proceeded with extreme speed.

Hua Zifeng took a deep breath. ’Never in my wildest dreams would I have imagined this.’ The disciples Little Master Wen recruited locally were said to be sent abroad for training, but in reality, they were sent to overseas plantations. And those plantations were dedicated to growing poppies.

This information all came from the families of disciples who had returned from abroad. Now that they could no longer get any benefits from Little Master Wen, they had no reason to help his group continue to deceive everyone. The moment the police started investigating, they spilled everything they knew, completely exposing the affairs of Little Master Wen and his entourage.

The truth, long concealed by Little Master Wen and his group, immediately caused a major uproar in the area. Many of the families whose children had become his disciples were devastated, crying and begging the police to rescue their children at once.

’Poppies!’

Hua Zifeng sighed. They were nothing but trouble. Anyone who knew about poppies understood exactly what kind of business Little Master Wen and his group were running.

This was the very thing Hua Zifeng hated most. After learning about it, he felt as if his face was stinging, having been slapped again and again.

However, besides the matter of the plantations, the Kongkan Prefecture police had uncovered other things.

For example, one of Little Master Wen’s disciples, Master Zhang, had once gone to Beijing to secretly assassinate a girl named Su Qing. He had even taken another life in the process. Wanted posters with Master Zhang’s likeness were now everywhere on the mainland and, naturally, in Xiangcheng as well. However, the people of Xiangcheng weren’t familiar with this Master Zhang, so they never made the connection to Little Master Wen. It was only when the Kongkan Prefecture authorities investigated that everyone was shocked to realize a wanted poster for one of Little Master Wen’s disciples had been publicly displayed in Xiangcheng for quite some time.

Furthermore, Little Master Wen had also dispatched people to Guang Province and Yun Province to attack several police officers, one of whom died in the line of duty.

Hua Zifeng had also conducted his own investigation and was shocked to discover that these police officers and the girl, Su Qing, were all connected to a raid on a plantation in Guang City last year. The force behind that plantation in Guang Province was the Xiangcheng gang, the Hetian Association.

Because of that incident, the Hetian Association had crumbled, and it was now just a third-rate gang in Xiangcheng.

However, considering that Little Master Wen had sent people to attack these specific individuals, and combining that with the knowledge of disciples being sent to plantations, Hua Zifeng had no choice but to admit the truth. Little Master Wen had to be the man behind Xiangcheng’s Hetian Association. In other words, the real master of these plantations was probably Little Master Wen himself.

As for whether Master Wen was involved in any of this, Hua Zifeng didn’t know yet. But the reverence he held in his heart for Master Wen had already begun to crack.

If Master Wen was aware of what his disciple was doing, then the exposure of these matters would be a fatal blow to his reputation.

’Could it be that because of this, Master Wen...’

The thought suddenly struck Hua Zifeng.

Hua Zifeng jumped, and his scalp tingled. ’If that’s true, doesn’t that mean Master Wen is inextricably involved in all this?’

At this thought, Hua Zifeng couldn’t help but gasp.

”Mr. Hua...” Seeing his expression, the assistant said quickly, ”Don’t get too anxious. I’m sure this will all be resolved.”

The assistant understood the blows Hua Zifeng had suffered over the past few days, so he was worried it would affect his state of mind.

”I’m fine.” Hua Zifeng shook his head and looked down at his notebook. On the page, the names of the police officers and Su Qing’s name were heavily double-underlined.

Seeing this, the assistant asked, ”Mr. Hua, when we get to Beijing, do you think we should try to meet this girl, Su Qing?”

Then, the assistant chuckled. ”And hey, this Su Qing and that Miss Susan share a surname.”

Hua Zifeng glanced at his assistant. ”Susan is her English name. Her Chinese name is Tang Yashan.”

Out of curiosity about Susan, Hua Zifeng had naturally done his research and knew the Hua Country name on her passport.

”Heh, I was just making an observation,” the assistant said with a laugh.

Hua Zifeng shook his head gently and looked at Su Qing’s name. ”This girl is still a student at Beijing University. I heard she was the top scorer on last year’s college entrance exam for Beijing. She’s a brilliant young woman.”

”Yeah, and a daring one, too,” the assistant added with a nod. ”For a young woman to get involved in a case to raid a plantation...”

”Yes, she’s certainly got guts,” Hua Zifeng sighed.