"How about... let's fight the police?"
This was the advice Saji gave a few days ago. Kai was very moved by this, but Meatball and Portman didn't care.
but……
"I understand the truth, but why do we come here to be lumberjacks?" Portman, wearing work clothes and holding a chainsaw, complained to Kai depressedly.
Kai is also dressed in the same way, but unlike Portman, he is quite interested in the job in front of him. He had never been a lumberjack in his entire life. Kai put down the ax and wiped his sweat, smiled and comforted: "Don't complain so much, just relax your body."
The Saji family's logging farm went bankrupt because it could not repay its bank loan. The logging farm and the forest were supposed to be auctioned in a few days. But after Saji came back, he helped his father pay off the loan before the auction. No matter what happened, Saji was not expelled from the army. He was retired, so he received a lot of severance pay. Coupled with his previous savings, it was not a big deal to pay off their family's loan.
The loan has been paid off, but for a while, their family can't find enough manpower. The workers who used to work for their family have already gone their separate ways. It will take some time to recruit more people, so Saji simply Several of his comrades and old friends were brought over to help. Once the lumberyard was on track, they would apply for police service.
Kai and Meatball have no problem with this. Anyway, even if they want to be police officers, they can still do it for a few days. Only Portman is not very happy. Just looking at this guy's face, you can tell that he is not the kind of person who will go to work and make money honestly. He has always hated this kind of heavy manual labor. To put it simply, it is indolence.
Sage also knew who Portman was, so he pretended not to hear his complaints. He picked up a can of beer and threw it to Meatball.
"Here, meatball!"
Then Saji picked up a can of Dr Pepper and threw it to Kai. This is a niche flavor of Coke in the United States. It is a caramel carbonated drink with a strange taste, a bit like cough syrup with carbonation added. It tastes particularly sweet, even A bit boring. People who don't like it will feel sick after taking one sip, but people who are used to its taste like it very much. Kai loved it. Although Kai usually doesn't particularly like sweets, he just likes this kind of cola.
Kai took the Coke and drank it in one gulp before throwing the can into a trash bag. The empty cans here had just been put into the bag, and someone came running over there panting.
"Saji! Hurry! Someone is causing trouble for your father!"
Upon hearing this, a group of people immediately dropped their work and rushed down the mountain with logging axes and sticks.
When a group of people drove to the door of Saji's house aggressively, Saji's father was warning the group of people with a shotgun.
"Get out of my house, you bitches!"
The old man is already sixty years old, but his temper is not calm at all. On the contrary, the group of people he threatened seemed polite and polite. "Mr. Vaughn, the conditions we have proposed are very sincere. I hope you will consider them carefully. I don't want something that no one wants to happen to happen."
Although these people all wear suits and ties, they don't look like good people in any way.
"Go away! Tell Hamilton that if he has the guts, he will give it a try!"
"Hey! What do you want to do by blocking my house?" Saji got out of the pickup truck with a large square log and walked directly to the group of people to separate them from his father.
When the group of people saw Saji coming aggressively with a group of strong men, they didn't have any overreaction, but obediently got out of the way.
"Ha, Saji. Long time no see! I just heard you were back a few days ago. How are you? Are you doing well outside?" Unexpectedly, the leader actually knew Saji.
Unfortunately, Saji didn't seem to be interested in him.
"That's enough, McCarthy. I don't want to hear this. You know I'm not interested in you, and my family doesn't want anything to do with you! So stay away from my family!"
The man named McCarthy curled his lips and said helplessly: "Listen, Saji, I don't want to cause trouble. I'm just here to do a business with you."
Saji was unmoved, and the man looked at Saji and the others. In the end, he didn't say anything and walked away with the people.
After the gang left, Saji's father was still aggrieved and even spat in the direction the gang left.
Only later did Kai know why the Sage family disliked those people so much. It turns out that his family's wood factory was in trouble because of them. This group of people had approached their family a long time ago and wanted to buy their lumber mill, but Saji's father, Mr. Vaughn, did not agree. Even before Saji came back, they came once more. But Father Vaughn still disagreed, and that time, the group seemed to have lost patience.
As expected, something happened a few days later. A batch of lumber originally intended for delivery caught fire, and two workers were even burned. This caused Father Vaughn to not only allocate a large sum of money to the customer, but also lose the order, plus workers' compensation. The lumber mill ran into serious financial problems. In the end, it was unable to repay the loan and had to close down.
From that time on, Father Vaughn knew that the accident at the lumber mill was definitely related to this group of people. Now that Saji has come back to bring the lumber factory back to life, his father will naturally say anything to make the lumber factory fall into the hands of those people.
"These people are the lackeys of Hamilton! They are the ones who make the town miserable! Others are afraid of them, but I am not afraid!"
These are the exact words of Father Vaughn. Today, when the town is controlled by evil forces, few people dare to be as tough as Father Vaughn. This is not because Saji came back to support him, but because he has always had this temper. He even preferred the lumber mill to go out of business rather than sell it to Hamilton.
…
After driving away the gang, a friend of Saji secretly told Saji to be careful. Ford's gang has now become Hamilton's thugs, and they are responsible for many bad things in the town. They won't let it go.
Saji was very disdainful of this. In Saji's view, what could a group of gangsters do? I really pissed him off, so I couldn't use a gun to kill these bastards!
Unfortunately, he still underestimated these bastards.
The very next day, Saji was called back by a phone call from his father while he was working. Then he learned that his sister Angel had been kidnapped!
This completely pissed off Saji. Kai happened to have something to do that day, so he returned to the city with Meatball and Portman. As a result, Saji ran to Hamilton's casino alone, intending to ask them to make friends.
And then...it almost didn't happen anymore.
Saji did stay in the special forces for six years, but he was not a superman. If a man went to someone else's lair with bare hands to find trouble, it would naturally not end well. Being beaten up.
Not only that, he was beaten up, but the people from the casino took him to the police station in the name of causing trouble.
The police department was even more vigorous and resolute, investigating the matter "clearly and clearly" in one night. When Kai and the others arrived at the hospital, Saji was still in handcuffs on the hospital bed.
"What's going on?" Kai looked at his old subordinates in surprise. Although Saji was not a superman, he was not unable to deal with a few gangsters. And even if you can't fight, it's always okay to escape, right? How could it be so miserable?
Saji's nose was bruised and his face was swollen, with a grimace on his face. "I was plotted against them."
It turned out that all of this was premeditated. As soon as Saji arrived at the casino, people in the casino had a conflict with Saji. These people were prepared for Saji. After Saji knocked down a few people, those people directly used lime to kill him. Fans fascinated Saji's eyes, then swarmed up and beat Saji half to death, and was finally sent to the police station.
What's even more annoying is that Saji's sister was not kidnapped at all! His silly girl went home this morning. It turns out that this girl sneaked out of her room last night and went to the city with a bunch of friends to have fun. They played all night before coming back. As soon as she came back, she learned that her brother was beaten into a police station in order to 'save' her. I went to the hospital and got a lawsuit.
It is also because of this that the excuse that Saji went to save someone because his sister was kidnapped was not accepted by the police.
Now the casino plans to charge Saji with two counts of causing trouble without reason and causing injury. Among them, the charge of wounding is the most troublesome. There were many guests in the casino at that time. When Saji was fighting with the gang of gangsters, he did not pay attention and injured several guests who were spending money in the casino. Now these people and the casino must be sued. Saji…
What's even worse is that these charges are very defensible, and the casino has surveillance. According to surveillance footage, Saji made a fuss as soon as he arrived at the casino, then started to act aggressive, and was finally restrained. No matter how you look at it, it's Sage's fault.
"This group of people seems to be no ordinary gangsters." Kai said.
Ordinary gangsters don't have this kind of brains. After knowing that Saji was from the special forces, they had no intention of confronting him head-on, but just played tricks. Fortunately, not only was Saji beaten in vain, but he was also involved in a lawsuit.
"What should we do now?" Portman looked grim and made a slit-throat gesture towards Kai. "Did them?"
Kai glanced at him. It was a good thing that this guy was by his side, otherwise he would have been a desperado outside.
"It's not that simple. If we kill them, not only will Saji be dead, but we will also be on the run."
"What should we do?" Meatball asked. He has no experience with this kind of thing.
"It's very simple. Those people will naturally come to your door. We'll see what they plan to do then. Let's clear Saji's lawsuit first, and everything will be easy to deal with!" Kai didn't want to be so passive, but the problem was, now that he was being Help the gangster to put everything on the surface, what can he do?
Fortunately, the reason why these people go around and do so many things is definitely not just to teach Saji a lesson. In the end, there was no direct conflict between Saji and them. They couldn't do it, so they beat around the bush just to beat Saji. In doing so, they probably took a fancy to the Saji family's lumber factory.
"Are we just going to watch those bastards threaten us?" Portman is obviously not used to the role they play now. When he was in the army, they were the ones bullying others. Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the army, it was the turn of a group of people. The gangsters bullied them! The contrast is too great.
Kai didn't say anything. You have to get used to these things. Their positions are different, and the rules they have to abide by are different. When they were in the special forces, most of the people they faced were the ones they wanted to kill. Naturally, they could do whatever they wanted, but now they are back As a society, everything must be done in compliance with social rules.
While they were chatting with Saji, Ford led someone into the ward in a swaggering manner. The policeman responsible for guarding Saji over there did not take any action in response to their arrival, and even took the initiative to leave to make it convenient for them.
"Saji...Look, I have already said that we are just going to do business. We don't want it to be like this...Forget it, I guess you don't want to hear these words either. I came on the same terms as that day, to sell the wood processing factory. Give it to us. Not only will the price stay the same, but the casino will also drop the charges against you."
Ford did not gloat, but put forward the conditions very calmly.
"You're dreaming!!! Even if I..." Upon hearing this, Saji immediately jumped up from the hospital bed in excitement.
But before he could finish his words, Kai pushed him back onto the bed.
"I agreed on his behalf. The wood processing plant can be sold to you." Kai said to Ford calmly.
Ford looked at Kai a little strangely. He didn't know who Kai was, and he didn't understand what qualifications Kai had to say this.
"Second Lieutenant!" Saji seemed even more surprised than Ford, and even called out his title in the army.
"Now you have a lawsuit on your back. We'll wait until the lawsuit is over. You're just a bunch of gangsters. You can kill them at any time!" Kai didn't care about Ford, but spoke out his plan very generously. After comforting Saji, Kai turned to Ford and said, "What did you say?"
Ford was clearly unfazed by Kay's threat.
He does have this qualification. Now all the people in Jiade Town belong to them. No matter whether they are black or white, they are confident that they can handle anything easily. "Of course, we just want wood processing plants."
"Whenever the casino withdraws the lawsuit, we can handle the handover. Is it okay?"
"Can!"
…
These people acted really fast. That afternoon, the casino withdrew the lawsuit. However, the gamblers who were injured at the time did not withdraw their lawsuits. The casino would not help Saji resolve these matters, and they had to rely on themselves. Afterwards, Saji and his father, Mr. Vaughan, signed the transfer agreement. Saji used his own money to repay the loan of the lumber mill, so the shareholders of the lumber factory became Saji and his father. Americans attach great importance to private property. If Saji paid for it, he would naturally have shares in the lumber mill. The brothers would settle the accounts.
Mr. Vaughn and Suggi both looked ugly. Saji stopped talking. He never thought he would suffer such a big loss at the hands of a group of gangsters. But Mr. Vaughan is much more complicated. His family fortune that spanned decades was actually taken away in this way. It was so frustrating, but what could he do? Watching your son go to jail?
After getting the transfer agreement, Ford did not leave immediately. Instead, he smiled and said to Saji and Kai: "Our boss is very sorry for this misunderstanding, so he plans to invite a few of them to go to the casino to play together. All the expenses will be counted on us." Yes! How about it?"
Kai smiled and said: "No problem, after we finish solving Saji's matter, we will pay a good visit to your boss!"
If Ford had some intention of easing the relationship between the two parties, then Kai's words were too harsh and he obviously intended to make them look good.
"Then we'll be waiting for you." Ford didn't say much, just sneered and left with a harsh word. But he himself didn't care at all about Kai's words, he just said harsh words. People all over the world are the same. For example, when Americans fight, they always shout "I kill you!", but basically no one will take such words seriously. Something happened.
Kai never speaks harshly about things he doesn't know, he only means what he says!
