Secret Buyer-Chapter 73: You Don’t Respect Me!

Before dinner, I received a call from Lu Mingzhu.

She said that more than half of the staff in the hotel are loyal to the big boss, making it difficult to take over.

Zhang Fusheng didn’t say much, he just asked her to organize some information and send it over.

At night, dinner was as usual in the small quiet room on the fourth floor.

But this time, the meal was eaten in silence.

Chen Yuque’s left hand was limp, and the pale skin on it occasionally throbbed, as if some unique power was wandering within, destroying vitality.

She frowned, enduring the pain, silently eating vegetables,

Little Child was also uncharacteristically silent, burying his head in his meal.

The atmosphere was somewhat heavy.

On the contrary, Niu Dali, with a usually honest appearance, was constantly expressing concern for Zhang Fusheng,

Zhang Fusheng responded to every sentence, a faint smile on his face.

The two seemed inseparable.

"I’m done eating." Chen Yuque put down her chopsticks and stood up to leave.

"I’m full too."

Little Child also pushed his bowl aside, hesitated for a moment, and said:

"Let’s eat separately from now on."

She stood up to leave as well.

In the quiet room, only Zhang Fusheng and Niu Dali remained.

The senior brother took a big bite of rice:

"By the way, junior brother, I heard there was a heavy rain in Dragon Boat City a week ago, and you ran into some danger?"

He was probing.

That night, all the hotel staff were on the rooftop, influenced by Zhang Fusheng’s spiritual will, unaware of what had happened,

leaving them with only a shattered lobby and a cement ground outside that seemed plowed by artillery.

Zhang Fusheng nodded:

"Someone attacked me."

"Was it dangerous?" the senior brother asked.

"Not too bad." Zhang Fusheng smiled and said, "Just some small fry, an elder helped clean them up quickly."

He didn’t know what the senior brother planned to do next, but Zhang Fusheng himself also needed time... Behind the senior brother was the Western Sect.

He needed the Fearless Lion meat to be delivered tomorrow, needed to reach some deals with the felons at Jiangzhou prison.

Before the contract could be used again, Zhang Fusheng didn’t even intend to activate the High Heaven Order held by Shi Zhengyuan and Mr. Du.

The senior brother’s pupils slightly contracted, and he said:

"The Peace Hotel in Dragon Boat, failed to protect you adequately, I’ve already made them all commit suicide."

"Additionally, Lu Mingzhu, whom you brought back, recently went to the Peace Hotel in the Ninth District, I also had her endure ten days of water punishment and three hundred strokes of the cane there as a penalty for her."

Zhang Fusheng put down his chopsticks, shook his head and said:

"Senior brother, she’s my person."

The senior brother didn’t even lift his head:

"Junior brother, I’m helping you teach your people how to do things. Since they failed to protect you, they should be punished."

"But senior brother, there’s a saying: even when you beat a dog, you must consider its owner."

"Junior brother, today I’ll teach you a lesson: if you encounter a vicious dog on the street, you not only need to beat the dog but also its owner who raised it."

Zhang Fusheng stared at his senior brother, clearly sensing a killing intent as thick as tangible substance!

The second and third senior sisters’ attitudes towards him obviously changed.

The senior brother didn’t have someone attack him immediately, seemingly not just because he feared someone behind him,

but as if waiting for something.

Zhang Fusheng stood up:

"I’ve had enough."

"Take it easy," the senior brother still didn’t lift his head.

After his junior brother left the Martial Arts Dojo, Chen Yuque returned to the quiet room at some point.

"Is he really the junior brother?"

"It’s because I’m not sure that I didn’t act against him."

With a naive, honest appearance, Niu Dali lightly sighed:

"Keep observing, if we really find evidence of the junior brother directly contacting Chai Gate and the Western Sect..."

Chen Yuque lightly sighed:

"Should we wait for Master to come back before deciding?"

"I think the same way." The senior brother closed his eyes, speaking in a deep voice: "But if he really is the junior brother, I fear he won’t let us wait until Master returns."

"The thug in the afternoon, a peak of Twelve Refinements."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yuque paused for a moment:

"Senior brother, you’re still too soft-hearted, the evidence we’ve gathered so far is already enough."

"No, I’m worried if someone is framing the junior brother, so we must continue investigating." The senior brother said firmly: "Master also needs such evidence."

Meanwhile, in a taxi that had already left the Martial Arts Dojo far behind.

"I see."

Zhang Fusheng whispered silently, afraid of Master thoroughly investigating, so they want to pin an irremovable charge on me, like colluding with the Western Sect?

What will you do?

And how could the Living Buddha collude with the Western Sect?

Zhang Fusheng smiled.

......

Ninth District, Peace Grand Hotel.

Unlike Dragon Boat City, in this city, the Peace Hotel holds half of the voice in the underworld.

The other half belongs to the Chai Gate.

’Bang! Bang! Bang!’

Muffled noises echoed in the bustling hotel lobby. A beautiful woman was pinned down on the punishment bench, the dark red solid heavy rod striking again and again.

The guests watched with interest, treating it as a little sideshow between meals.

Manager Zhang, responsible for managing the hotel, squatted beside the punishment bench, speaking gently in a voice only they could hear:

"Mingzhu, the big boss hopes you can make the right choice."

Lu Mingzhu gritted her teeth tightly, saying nothing.

The red rod, laced with subtle power, fell on her body, the brute force entering her body, instantly transforming into intricate piercing power, stabbing deep into her bone marrow and internal organs,

Each strike felt like a thousand needles stabbing into her body.

The pain was beyond ordinary imagination, surpassing even death by a thousand cuts.

"Two hundred and seventy strikes left, just hum, and it can end immediately."

Manager Zhang spoke gently.

Lu Mingzhu remained silent, her eyes tightly shut.

After fifty strikes, all her bones shattered; Manager Zhang injected her with three extremely expensive serums, one to sustain her life, another to quickly mend her broken bones, and a third to enhance her perception several times over.

Then, they continued.

Another fifty strikes, under the influence of the serum, she couldn’t pass out, her barely healed bones shattering again,

And her enhanced perception multiplied her pain several times over.

Lu Mingzhu still gritted her teeth tightly, her entire mouth filled with fine cracks from clenching too hard.

"Tough enough!" Manager Zhang injected her with three more serums: "Two hundred strikes left, let’s continue."

’Bang! Bang! Bang!’

The dull thuds resonated.

"The person executing the punishment is actually Zheng Qiankun." A guest wearing a top hat leaned against the wall, surveying from a distance, holding a glass of wine, clicking his tongue in wonder:

"This is someone who’s perfected the Thousand Needle Hand."

"Thousand Needle Hand?" Beside him, another guest asked softly.

The middle-aged man in the top hat glanced at the pale-faced young man, smiled, and nodded:

"Yes, the power bursts forth like a thousand piercing needles. He administers punishment without eliciting a single scream; tsk, tsk, that woman’s bones must be truly tough."

Zhang Fusheng nodded silently, waiting quietly. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

One hundred and fifty strikes, two hundred strikes, two hundred and fifty strikes.

Lu Mingzhu’s bones shattered and healed repeatedly, even with the extremely expensive serums being injected one after another without regard to cost,

Such a brutal punishment...

Aside from her head, her limbs and torso were nearly reduced to sludge.

She barely held onto her last breath.

Yet Zhang Fusheng simply watched quietly, listening to the thuds, two hundred and seventy strikes, two hundred and eighty strikes...

Lu Mingzhu still bit down hard, revealing nothing—though she knew nothing.

But since she didn’t ’surrender,’ it was enough.

She could be used, greatly used.

All three hundred strikes were done.

Manager Zhang stood up, marveling:

"Honestly, I truly admire you, it’s just a pity..."

’Clap, clap, clap.’

Before he could finish, applause sounded from afar.

Turning his head, Manager Zhang paused, seeing a slender young man clapping as he walked over, the guests curiously watching.

"Who is that?"

"No idea, but he’s got guts to interrupt Peace Hotel’s family punishment..."

"Mustn’t be simple. Hmm, remember his appearance, later draw it out so the kids at home can remember."

Amidst the murmurs, Zhang Fusheng walked up to the punishment bench, standing firmly.

"Bo... boss." Lu Mingzhu managed to speak, before completely fainting.

"Heal her." Zhang Fusheng said softly.

"Fourth boss." Manager Zhang clearly recognized this young man, smiling as he spoke: "According to the big boss’s orders, we can’t treat her injuries yet, she needs to be sent to the water prison first..."

The boy’s delicate arm suddenly swelled to a blue-green hue, sweeping across with a hand larger than a head!

Manager Zhang’s body below the neck was blasted into a mist of blood by the tremendous force!

His head crashed to the ground, rolling twice, blinking madly, his mouth trembling, trying to speak, but unable to make a sound!

In the last second of consciousness.

’Bang!’

His head was stomped and exploded.

The noisy lobby suddenly fell silent.

"If you don’t behave, then let me teach you on behalf of my senior brother."

As he spoke, Zhang Fusheng cupped his hands around apologetically, saying: "Family disgrace, sorry for making you all laugh."

After he finished speaking, he turned to look at the bewildered hotel staff, each loyal to their senior brother.

"Why didn’t you greet me when you saw me?"

Zhang Fusheng asked:

"Do you... not respect me?"

He licked his lips, the violence suppressed in his heart fully unleashed:

"Then let me teach you on behalf of my senior brother too."