After all, nobody would want to miss out on such a chance for revenge.
It just so happened that Wei Xinghuo’s men had originally planned to tie up the employees from the coach and use them as hostages, so they’d all brought ropes along.
Now, those ropes were all snatched by the head office staff, turning into tools to punish Wei Xinghuo’s gang instead.
Seeing his men being tied up tightly on the spot with ropes, Wei Xinghuo instantly panicked and immediately opened his mouth to say.
“Mate, don’t get cocky, what happened earlier was my fault for being petty and eager for revenge, if you let us go, I can let bygones be bygones!”
“But if you insist on being so stubborn, then today’s matter isn’t over, I’ll call my dad right now and have him bring people to rescue me personally!”
These words were all too familiar to Wei Xinghuo, in fact, during those early years after leaving the military and messing around in the capital.
Wei Xinghuo had used similar threats to bluff and intimidate people plenty of times, and they usually worked well.
After all, anyone who heard Wei Xinghuo say his father was the commander of the capital would instinctively feel a sense of awe.
Though it was only his adoptive father, even so, it wasn’t a connection just anyone could casually cosy up to.
But after Wei Xinghuo finished saying all this, there wasn’t the slightest trace of fear on Xu Fei’s face, instead, he wore a deeply scornful smile.
“Wei Xinghuo, why don’t you take a good look at yourself in the mirror, you’re a grown man with nothing to show for it, still leeching off your old man, I feel embarrassed for Commander Wei on your behalf!”
Though Xu Fei’s words were dripping with mockery, to Wei Xinghuo’s ears, they carried a different flavour.
“Hmm? Why’s he suddenly saying this, could he actually be scared?”
So Wei Xinghuo immediately reached into his pocket, pretending to pull out his phone, and continued.
“Whether I leech or not is none of your business, I’ll just repeat myself, if you don’t leave now, I’m really going to call my adoptive dad!”
Wei Xinghuo had thought victory was in his grasp, figuring that after saying this, Xu Fei would toss out a couple of casual remarks to save face and then leave.
But who could’ve guessed, Xu Fei let out a cold snort upon seeing this.
“Wei Xinghuo, you’re overthinking it, you don’t seriously believe you can scare me off just by dropping Commander Wei’s name, do you? If you’ve got the guts, go ahead and call him here today!”
With things having reached this point, whether it was to avoid looking like a fool after all his big talk or to genuinely save his own skin.
For whatever reason, Wei Xinghuo had no choice but to hurriedly pull out his phone and dial his adoptive father.
At that moment, in an ancient, quaint courtyard house in the capital, an elderly man was sitting quietly in a room.
He held a newspaper in his hand, yet he was leaning back on the sofa, fast asleep.
This was Wei Kangnian, the commander of the capital, also known as Wei Xinghuo’s adoptive father.
While Wei Kangnian was deep in sleep, the phone suddenly rang, though it wasn’t on him but with a guard who usually looked after his daily needs.
The guard immediately answered the call, and Wei Xinghuo, naturally, launched into a pitiful rant over the phone about how miserable he was, begging his adoptive father Wei Kangnian to bring people to save him quickly.
Hearing this, the guard rushed in to report, though he personally had no respect for this spoiled adopted son of the commander.
But this was, after all, a family matter for Commander Wei, and as an outsider, he’d best not meddle.
Pushing the door open and stepping inside, the guard saw that Commander Wei was already asleep, so he tentatively reached out and patted the commander’s shoulder.
