Chapter 40: Colluding with the Tiger for its Skin

  "How many do you need? This is no trivial matter here." Ma Ge asked Li Gang.

  Li Gang raised his head: "Let's start with 10 kilograms first. I'll go back and see how the sales are going. If it's effective, we'll need a larger quantity later."

  "Ten kilograms? Can you finish it? Now the border inspection is very strict, it's hard to bring it out. No way, the risk is too great." Ma Ge shook his head.

  Zhang Jialin said sarcastically beside him: "Afraid of Mao, he is the nephew of the provincial anti-drug bureau chief, who dares to check him?"

  "Are you the nephew of a policeman?" Ma Ge became alert again.

  "What's the point of being so tense? Can he be a policeman just like that? At most, it's just relying on the name of his police uncle to intimidate people." Zhang Jialin nodded towards Li Gang who was yawning.

  "Alright, but I still don't quite believe you guys. This time, I'll give you five kilograms of goods first, but you must pay the money first. If your skills are good enough, we can talk about other things later." Ma Ge decided to try out Li Gang and his crew.

  "Damn it, after deducting the transportation fee and our own food expenses, how much can we still make? No way, it's too little." Li Gang cursed.

  Ma Ge sat down again, closed his eyes and began to rest: "Do you want it or not." Then he ignored them completely.

  Li Gang pretended to grit his teeth: "Alright, five kilograms it is. It's better than nothing. I'm telling you, next time we make a deal, I want more goods."

  Several people returned to the rental house with things, holding a board in their hands, and said proudly: "How's that? Brother Gang is out, everything is settled, isn't it awesome?"

  The cauliflower snake rushed up and twisted Li Gang's ear, coming with a full frequency: "Were those dirty words you said earlier often said to other girls?"

  "Ow, let go of me quickly, wasn't that necessary for work? I was just talking nonsense." Li Gang covered the snake's hand with one hand and begged for mercy.

  "Weave, you continue weaving, if you don't tell me clearly today, I'll twist your ears off." The cauliflower snake was not moved at all.

  "Alright, stop making a fuss, let's talk business." Xie Xiao Shuai pretended to clear his throat.

  Caihua Snake let go of his hand with a hiss, glared at Li Gang: "See how I'll deal with you later." Li Gang's face immediately turned sour.

  "Now that things have made progress, this play still has to continue. Li Gang, you bring that skinny monkey along for the border inspection tomorrow. Zhang Jia, contact your superiors and get them to cooperate. We'll put on a good show for the skinny monkey, and when the time comes, he'll definitely go back and report to his superiors. That way, we can get even more useful things."

  Xie Xiaoshuai made the decision, and things were settled. Zhang Jia immediately called her superior to report on the situation and asked for instructions on Xie Xiaoshuai's request. The person on the other end of the phone was very satisfied with their results and expressed full cooperation.

  The next day, Li Gang found the thin-skinned monkey and told him to come and see his energy. By the way, he asked him to go out and have some fun. The thin-skinned monkey also wanted to see what this nephew of the anti-drug brigade commander, who was boasting loudly, was capable of, so he got on the bus with Li Gang and others heading to Baiyun City.

  The big bus was stopped at the border checkpoint, and the border police who were on duty carefully checked every single person. The police dogs sniffed around the bus. When it was Li Gang's turn to be checked, he became nervous. He himself didn't have anything on him, but Li Gang had goods on him. If they were discovered, their whole group would be in trouble.

  The one who checked them was the intelligence staff of the armed police, and when he walked in front of Li Gang, he pretended to be very surprised: "Wow, isn't this Brother Li? What wind blew you here?"

  "Come out and play with a few brothers, want to check me? I'll cooperate with your work." The two people's acting skills are already good enough to be professional actors.

  "No, no, who would dare to suspect you! What kind of person is your brother Li? Would he do something illegal and violate discipline?" The armed police lieutenant hastily clasped his hands together in front of his chest.

  Then they skipped the inspection and continued, the thin monkey watched with his eyes wide open and thought to himself: "This guy is too awesome, if I had the energy to fight like him, would I still sneak around every time only bringing that little bit of goods? It's really true that some people are more impressive than others."

  Several people passed through the border inspection smoothly, and the bus stopped halfway again, all the way to Baishan City. That night, Li Gang and others settled the thin monkey in a hotel, and several people left, claiming to be looking for friends to sell goods.

  The next morning, several people came to the hotel in a brand new Buick sedan with a provincial government license plate to pick up Skinny Monkey. When Skinny Monkey saw the license plate, his eyes almost popped out, and he was thoroughly convinced of Li Gang's power.

  After Skinny Monkey left, he immediately reported to Ma Ge what he saw on the way. In order to highlight that he found a powerful successor, he exaggerated Li Gang's abilities and almost praised him to the sky. After listening, Ma Ge also eliminated many of his suspicions about Li Gang.

  Li Gang and others had traded with Ma Ge several times, and the scale was getting bigger and bigger. Li Gang and others were actually quite famous in that circle. This day, Li Gang went to find Ma Ge to pick up goods again, and Ma Ge took them to a secret room behind the KTV.

  "My boss wants to meet you all, don't talk nonsense later on, my boss's temper isn't that good."

  In the dimly lit room, a middle-aged fat man sat on the sofa with a big knife, and it was impossible to see his face clearly. The fat man had one beautiful young girl in each arm, and his hands were constantly grasping for oil. The two girls giggled from time to time, feeding fruit into the fat man's mouth. Next to them stood two bodyguards dressed in black, with their right hands in their pockets, apparently carrying guns.

  "I heard you guys are quite capable, managing to smuggle out a large quantity under such strict border control. But those were just small-time stuff, want to do something bigger?" The middle-aged fat man said with his mouth full of fruit.

  Li Gang and the others heard this, and the fish took the bait. The real show was about to begin. Li Gang pretended to be arrogant and replied: "How big can it be? It's not me bragging, but on this land of White Cloud, there's nothing that I, your father, can't accomplish."

  Fatso didn't believe Li Gang's boastful words: "Stop showing off your skills there, I hate people who talk big but can't deliver. Tell me, how much can you really eat?"

  "One hundred kilograms is fine, I don't have that much money. As long as this batch is done, next time we can double the shipment." Li Gang pretended to consider it carefully.

  "Alright, I'll give you 100 kilograms, consider it a gift from me, but I have one condition."

  "What conditions?"

  "Get me a secure line, my stuff can bypass border checks from there."

  "That won't do, without me making an appearance, you don't think you can avoid being checked. At that time, not only will I be in trouble, but my brothers will also suffer. However, I can give you a piece of information, absolutely worth 100 kilograms of goods."

  "Oh, I'd like to hear what kind of news is worth 100 kilograms of goods." The fat man also became interested.

  "The route that the horse team used to take is now basically unguarded, and I have the specific location of their sentry posts. If you ship from there and combine it with my route map, it will be safe." What Li Gang said to Fatso was what he had previously discussed with the leaders of the Narcotics Division and the Border Defense Corps, not giving the drug trafficking group a chance to taste the sweetness, they would not fall for it.

  "Alright, it's a deal. If this works out, you'll be my most trusted and reliable partner from now on." The fat man patted the girl's thigh with his right hand and stood up.

  A few people finally saw the true face of Pangzi, and Zhang Jia's micro-camera hidden in her button quickly recorded Pangzi's appearance. This was the first time they had obtained information about a high-ranking member of the drug trafficking group, and the case finally made a breakthrough.