"Ah—" Song Xiaodong said nothing, lifted his leg and delivered a hard kick, leaving a large footprint on Wang Hongfei’s wide black T-shirt. Wang Hongfei’s belly fat fluttered up and down as he was kicked several meters away, rolling on the ground several times without making a sound, almost fainted from Song Xiaodong’s kick.

"Hey, don’t hit!" Qiao Yutong reached out both hands to grab Song Xiaodong’s arm.

"Oh... oh..." After a dozen seconds, Wang Hongfei finally caught his breath, clutching his stomach and rolling back and forth on the ground, then shouted, "You dare to hit me? Don’t blame me for being rude then! What are you all standing around for, go hit him!"

Upon hearing this, Song Xiaodong realized Wang Hongfei had made preparations, and he heard a clamor and footsteps from the other side of the restaurant as more than twenty thugs came towards him, wielding clubs, ready to hit Song Xiaodong.

"Don’t you know me?" Song Xiaodong furrowed his brows and scolded everyone, his voice like an earthquake, making the thugs stop about five meters away from him.

"Song, Mr. Song?" The boss of the thugs examined Song Xiaodong carefully under the streetlight and asked stammeringly.

"Get lost!" Song Xiaodong roared again, scaring the thugs into dropping their clubs and running away.

"Hey, what are you doing? You won’t get the money this way!" Wang Hongfei climbed up, turned his head, and shouted to the fleeing thugs.

"Hmph. Go and inquire around, see who in Minghe dares to take on a job of hitting me." Song Xiaodong pointed at the distant neon lights and said to Wang Hongfei.

"Kid, don’t be so cocky, no matter how tough you are in Minghe, you wouldn’t dare mess with Deputy Mayor Han’s friend! Just wait, I’ll call my brother now!" Wang Hongfei pointed at Song Xiaodong with one hand and made a phone call with the other.

"I’ll wait. I want to see how capable you really are!" Song Xiaodong wanted to solve the problem once and for all and gave Wang Hongfei the chance to perform.

"Hurry onto the car, it’s cold outside." Song Xiaodong took off his coat and put it on Qiao Yutong, acting as if Wang Hongfei was invisible, and domineeringly pulled Qiao Yutong’s arm, saying to her, "Get in the car."

Qiao Yutong staggered a bit, and as she stepped into the car, her foot slipped, causing her high heel to fall off, making her unsteady, but Song Xiaodong grabbed her waist with both hands, helping her onto the car and picked up her high heel.

Qiao Yutong hesitated for a moment, put on her shoe, and pulled her long legs back into the car.

Song Xiaodong closed the car door and waited for Wang Hongfei to call someone.

Before long, a car arrived, and out came a man in a trench coat with a hat and five suits-wearing, sunglasses-toting thugs.

"Bro, this guy hit me! And he’s trying to take my man!" Wang Hongfei greeted from afar and said to the trench-coated man.

"Who dares to be so brazen? Rest assured, little bro, we have Deputy Mayor Han backing us as foreign investors, the locals must show respect." The visitor said to Wang Hongfei.

"Bro, you must help me vent this anger! Look at this footprint he left on me!" Wang Hongfei showed the shoeprint on his belly to the trench-coated man.

"I’ll solve this for you!" The trench-coated man said to Wang Hongfei with great momentum.

Then, Wang Hongfei led the trench-coated man, followed by five expressionlessly stern thugs, to Song Xiaodong.

"Bro, it’s this guy, being so brazen, he’s already married yet still flirting with Deputy Director Qiao, and even got physical with me!" Wang Hongfei pointed at Song Xiaodong.

"Kid, you think you’re tough? You think just being able to fight means you can do business? You need connections! This is my big brother, Deputy Mayor Han’s friend, everyone in Minghe has to give face. If you don’t want things to get ugly, apologize right now, let me kick you, leave Director Qiao, and this will end. Otherwise, don’t blame my big brother..."

"Smack!—" The trench-coated man, standing aside, his expression hidden by his hat, raised his hand and delivered a slap before Wang Hongfei could finish, sending him spinning and covering his face with disbelief.

"Bro, what are you doing? Why’d you hit me?" Wang Hongfei asked the trench-coated man, confused.

The trench-coated man said nothing, quietly took off his hat, finally revealing his face under the streetlight; Wang Hongfei’s big brother was Zhang Dongfang.

"Mr. Song, I really apologize, I didn’t expect we’d meet again like this." Zhang Dongfang bowed deeply to Song Xiaodong.

"Bro, what are you doing? It’s him who hit me!"

Wang Hongfei couldn’t understand, Zhang Dongfang was the son-in-law of the President of Ruitu Union Bank, a walking ATM, having come to Minghe, no official big or small wouldn’t curry favor, Deputy Mayor Han personally received him with high ceremonial respect, yet he was bowing respectfully to a local small-time boss in Minghe?

Chapter 1939 What did you do to me?

"Bro, what is the meaning of this?" Wang Hongfei asked Zhang Dongfang again.

"Shut up!" Zhang Dongfang shouted at Wang Hongfei in fury, scaring him into opening his mouth but staying silent.

Zhang Dongfang walked up to Song Xiaodong, lowered his head and bent down, saying to Song Xiaodong, "Mr. Song, I came specifically this time to apologize to you."

"Didn’t you leave? Why are you back?" Song Xiaodong coldly said to Zhang Dongfang.

"Bro, this kid is so cocky, I’ll teach him a lesson for you!" Wang Hongfei, hearing Song Xiaodong speak like this to Zhang Dongfang, couldn’t resist trying to attack Song Xiaodong again.