Chapter 9: The Gate Road

  "Brother, I was really wrong." Yong Ge said with a bitter face.

  The hooligans have all run away, but Yong Ge's intestines are all green with regret.

  "Don't be nervous, you're not here to get beaten up."

  Ye Bai patted Yong Ge's shoulder and said, "Let's go out and talk."

  "Good." Brother Yong could only nod, his body and heart trembling.

  Under Lulu's family's stunned gaze, Ye Bai pulled Yong Ge and walked out of the yard.

  "Those little brothers of yours won't come again, will they?" Ye Bai asked as he walked.

  Don't even mention those younger brothers, mentioning them makes Brother Yong even more furious. They actually abandoned themselves and ran away without a trace!

  "It shouldn't come again." Yong Ge vaguely replied.

  "I heard you're under Leopard's command." Ye Bai said calmly.

  "Brother, you also know Leopard Brother?"

  Yong Ge's eyes lit up and he hastily said: "It seems we've all been washed away to the Dragon King Temple, it's all my fault for being blind and offending you, brother."

  "I don't know Leopard Brother, but I heard that he's recently done something and has been targeted by others, who even claim to want his life." Ye Bai was just making conversation.

  "You know this too!" Yong Ge was astonished, because he had just heard that Bao Ge was assassinated in the guest room of Shuxin Pavilion Hotel.

  "What's wrong, did something really happen?" Ye Bai continued to pretend ignorance.

  "Yes, Leopard Brother was ambushed and killed today." Brave Brother said in a low voice.

  "He's actually dead, have you found out who the murderer is? Have you called the police?" Ye Bai asked curiously.

  Actually, Ye Bai was worried about whether the police had intervened in Bao Ge's affairs, he didn't want to be targeted by the police as soon as he arrived in the city.

  Ye Bai also knew that the hotel must have surveillance cameras. If the police intervened, they would definitely retrieve the surveillance footage and might investigate him, even though he was a completely different person back then and now.

  "How could this be reported to the police? Leopard Brother has committed many crimes, he's dead, only Dragon Master can investigate and avenge him. As for whether Dragon Master found the killer, that's not something I can know. However, according to Mei Jie from Shuxin Pavilion, the ones who did it should be a beautiful woman and a young man pretending to be a country bumpkin."

  At the mention of the two words "Tǔ Biāo", Ye Bai's mouth twitched slightly, and he stopped in his tracks, asking: "Who is Dragon Lord?"

  "Brother Leopard is the big brother of our area, and Dragon Brother is Brother Leopard's big brother. We follow Brother Leopard, and he follows Dragon Brother. Dragon Brother is a well-known big shot in the entire Tianjing City, with connections to both the black and white worlds, and has thousands of brothers under him!" Yong Ge said with a very admiring tone.

  Ye Bai finally understood that Long Ye was a big boss of the underworld, while the seemingly powerful Yong Ge by his side was just a small and insignificant leader, no wonder he was so easy to deal with and didn't have much backbone.

  "After Leopard died, shouldn't someone take over his territory and business?" Ye Bai continued to ask, but her footsteps didn't lift again.

  "According to the company's rules, since Leopard Brother is dead, the territory and business around Xueyuan Road should be taken over by one of us. Normally, we brothers would gather together to vote and decide." Yong Brother explained.

  Ye Bai nodded slightly and then asked: "You won't tell anyone about what happened today, will you?"

  Brother Yong was taken aback at first, then shook his head repeatedly and patted his chest to guarantee: "I absolutely won't mention a single word to anyone else, otherwise I'll die in the streets! Of course, when I get back, I'll also make my brothers keep their mouths shut!"

  Ye Bai's face revealed a satisfied expression, and he gently patted Yong Ge's shoulder, saying: "I'm just someone who doesn't like to cause trouble, but if anyone provokes me, they won't have it easy either."

  Brother Yong thought to himself: I definitely won't provoke you again!

  "Right." After a moment of silence, Ye Bai spoke again, "You said if I want to attend Shida Fuzhong, do you have any connections?"

  "Go to school?"

  Brother Yong was stunned again, thought for a moment and said: "This is not difficult, spend some money to give gifts to those school leaders, it's easy to get in, but it seems that you also need good grades, Shi Da Fu Zhong is a municipal key middle school, if you don't have certain grades, unless you have a strong background relationship, no matter how much money you spend, you can't get in."

  "The grades are fine, it's just hard to find a way in." Ye Bai said calmly.

  Someone as capable as you can't even find a good route to go back to school?

  Yong Ge had doubts in his heart, but he didn't dare show it on his face. He thought for a moment and suddenly felt that this was an opportunity for himself, so he said: "I remember Lui's uncle is teaching at the attached middle school of the Normal University, and he is also the director of the admissions office of the high school department."

  "Oh?" Ye Bai's eyes lit up involuntarily.

  However, I heard that the old thing is very greedy. Some students who didn't pass the admission line of Shida Fuzhong want to get in through him. It costs 30,000 yuan for one point difference, and it must be within ten minutes. If it's more than ten minutes, you can't get in at all."

  "What if I were to transfer? For example, if I wanted to directly enter a certain class in the third year of high school, how much would it cost?" Ye Bai asked with an unchanged expression.

  "I'm really not sure about this, but I can ask Wei Zi to ask in detail when I get back," Yong Ge replied.

  Ye Bai smiled and took out a few red banknotes from his pocket, saying: "Then trouble you, take this money to buy some medicine for bruises and injuries for your brothers."

  "No, no, no! How can we accept your money?! Brother let us off the hook today, and that's already a great kindness to us." Yong Ge waved his hands repeatedly, not forgetting to flatter. For small-time gang leaders like them, if they wanted to get by and do well, they had to "understand the situation".

  "Do you think I still care about this little money?" Ye Bai tilted his head, with a pretentious expression, he was actually a poor devil at the moment, but he really didn't care about money.

  Yong Ge no longer dared to decline, stretched out a pair of trembling hands, and took those few red banknotes.

  "So after I've made some inquiries, how can I get in touch with you?" asked Brother Yong.

  "I'm in room 1108 of Shuntong Express Hotel, you can find me there." Ye Bai replied.

  "Alright." Yong Ge said with some embarrassment, "Then... I'll leave first?"

  Ye Bai nodded and said, "Let's go."

  Yong Ge suppressed the excitement in his heart and slowly walked towards the entrance of the alley.

  Ye Bai didn't make another sound, but just kept staring at Yong Ge, who would occasionally turn his head back to glance at him and smile.

  Ye Bai didn't go to warn Yong Ge about anything, because he didn't need to worry that a small role like Yong Ge could pose any threat to himself. As for whether Yong Ge would really put his heart into doing things, Ye Bai only held onto some slight hope.

  After Brother Yong walked out of the alley, he secretly thought to himself: "Come back for revenge? With my skills and those of my underlings, it's far from enough. But now that Leopard has just died and the new boss hasn't taken office yet, there isn't anyone more powerful who can help me out... This guy easily took down all of us, his skills are probably far beyond Leopard's, and judging by his tone, he doesn't seem like a good person either, maybe he's some kind of big shot. This might be an opportunity for me...

  Ye Bai looked at Yong Ge leaving the alley, then turned around and smiled: "You still have the habit of eavesdropping?"

  From a patch of darkness, Lulu and her family of three walked out.

  "Little brother, don't misunderstand, we're just worried and afraid that you'll be taken advantage of by those guys, so we followed you to take a look." The middle-aged uncle explained hastily.

  "Hehe, I'm also worried, so I didn't go back, but waited for them nearby." Ye Bai smiled, revealing two rows of pearly white teeth.

  "Big brother, are you going to Shida Fuzhong School?" asked LuLu, poking her head out from behind her mother's back with curiosity.

  "I've got this idea." Ye Bai nodded, he thought that Lu Lu's timid appearance at this moment was very cute.

  "I'm studying at Shida Fuzhong now, so will I be able to see big brother every day from now on?" LuLu asked.

  She's really such an innocent and naive little girl!

  Ye Bai nodded in admiration, a smile spreading across his face, but shook his head and said, "It's not certain that I can get in yet. When it comes to studying, I'm completely clueless, and I haven't even touched a textbook before."

  "It's okay, big brother, I can teach you. My grades have always been in the top three of our class!" Lulu said enthusiastically.