Chapter 448 - To Eliminate A Public Threat (1/2)

The phone call came from Shenyang, and not from the military phone of Zhao Huzi and others, but from a privately-owned renovation company.

After Qin Fen bought a house in Shenyang on the same day, he commissioned a real estate developer to help contact a reliable renovation company of high quality. The one that was contacting him at the moment was the renovation company that the real estate developer helped find.

“Hello Mr. Qin, I am Manager He, from Xinxin Housing Design and Renovation Company. We have sent our staff to assess the situation in your house. Are you currently free to receive our quotation?”

On the other side of the phone, Mr. He’s voice was very gentle. Qin Fen pressed the email receiving button on the new phone, and a detailed quotation with clear information appeared in the projection from Qin Fen’s mobile phone.

Seeing the quotation from the company, the faint smile on Qin Fen’s face quickly solidified, and a little anger rose from his facial muscles.

For a mere bag of sand to be transported to a unit on the eighteenth floor, the transportation cost was already up to eighteen yuan, whereas the price of the bag of sand itself is only about three yuan!

The shipping cost of a bag of sand is actually more than six times that of the sand itself? Qin Fen’s eyebrows raised as he continued to read the costs.

A set of family-use sofas was quoted by the decoration company at about six thousand yuan, but the cost of transportation was another three thousand yuan.

What is this? Qin Fen sneered, all the while confused. Is this a decoration company or a robbery company? I thought everybody said that current real estate developers cooperated with decoration companies and have formed a fair pricing system? How is the price so expensive?

Hashimoto Nagashiro stared at the quotation for a long time and asked, “Are there any problems with the prices?”

Qin Fen looked at the martial dao master from the State of Japan for a few seconds, only to recall that a lot of martial dao masters were not like himself, who once lived as part of the bottom of society and had nothing.

Regarding that past, Qin Fen had always regarded it as a precious experience in life, the many odd jobs back then; a construction site worker, an hourly paid worker, and even a moving company worker. Naturally, he knew the price of transportation of materials for renovations well.

A bag of three yuan sand costs eighteen yuan to transport, this was beyond the description of sky-high prices. Qin Fen shook his head again and again. This kind of transportation charge made money much faster than robbing the bank. How could the previous moving company that I worked in not have such high prices?

Qin Fen was silent for a few minutes. Manager He’s voice at the end of the phone was slightly perturbed, “Mr. Qin, do you have any questions about this quotation?”

Do I have any problems? Qin Fen heard this and sneered, “There is a problem. Three yuan for a bag of sand yet you want me to pay eighteen yuan for the transportation fee. And the sofa that costs six thousand yuan, you want me to pay a transportation fee of three thousand yuan. The quoted price of these doors and windows are all prices for branded products, but the brands you listed are notoriously low quality in the industry.”

Hashimoto Nagashiro looked at Qin Fen. This young martial dao master was not only proficient in martial arts but also understood basic livelihood for the public. He even knew the price and quality of any brand clearly.

As a martial dao master, Hashimoto Nagashiro knew that usually, everyone assigned matters directly to their disciples, so that they didn’t have to worry about it themselves. This meant that they didn’t know about the prices of things as well.

Qin Fen shook his head hard again and again, although he was no longer the poor boy who struggled in poverty back then, it did not mean that he would simply waste money of any amount, especially on this kind of wastage that was obvious to the discerning person.

Manager He on the other end of the phone chuckled awkwardly, and the tone of voice was full of helplessness as his voice sounded again in Qin Fen’s ear, “Mr. Qin, as far as you see it, except for the transportation costs and doors and windows, other prices are still fair right?”

Qin Fen was momentarily stunned. He didn’t expect Manager He to admit to this in such a simple way. This quotation was indeed very fair except for the price of transportation and doors and windows.

“Mr. Qin, there are some things that we cannot decide.” Manager He’s voice had a bit of an admonishing tone, “You also know that there are many factors to be considered in doing business in this society. I am going to be frank with you; your current transportation costs took us half a day of negotiation to get it to this cheap price…”

“Cheap?” Qin Fen suspected that his hearing was faulty. The other party dared to blindly say that these transportation costs were considered cheap!

If this was considered cheap, Qin Fen would like to ask the manager if, in his eyes, the pigs in the slaughterhouse were also Diaochan[1]?

“It’s really cheap.” Manager He’s voice was full of self-confidence, “Mr. Qin, I don’t have to lie about this. I can guarantee that even if you go to other decoration companies, the price of transportation and doors and windows will absolutely never be cheaper than what we offer.”

Qin Fen was very skeptical about where the confidence of the other party came from. The tone of his words was full of confidence, as though there was absolutely nothing wrong with the quoted price.

“Manager He.” Qin Fen paused a little, “In regards to transporting the materials, I think I’ll look for someone to do it on my own.”

“If Mr. Qin wants to find someone by yourself to transport it, no problem, just…” Manager He reluctantly said, “Just… if the person Mr. Qin finds is unable to complete the transportation, it is estimated that by the time you want to ask us for help, I am afraid that the price will have continued to rise even further. At that time, I hope that you can understand. There are some things that we can’t control and decide.”

Qin Fen’s left index finger rubbed around back and forth on his chin. He felt that the other party’s words were indeed full of hidden helplessness.

Hanging up the manager’s phone call, Qin Fen used the mobile phone inquiry function to find several moving companies to ask. When they heard the location of the community garden, the prices reported back were far more ridiculous than those reported by the manager. If it wasn’t for the unmistakable tone of helplessness in their words, Qin Fen would have wondered if he carried an aura of an easy target to scam.

“Well it’s just eighteen floors, isn’t it? I’ll just get this done myself, I suppose?” Qin Fen gently rotated his shoulders. With the power of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Art in the World Martial Arts Master Outline, forget sand and cement, even if it was a heavier thing, it wouldn’t even be a burden to lift it.

“Master, I will help you with moving.”

“Brother Qin, count me in as well.”

Qin Fen also felt that Yang Ruoruo and Yang Xixi should be safe for a while. He nodded as he dialed Zhao Huzi’s phone number. “Big Brother Zhao, it is me. Can you help me find a car, to move the sand and sofas and other furniture to the ground floor of where I live? My home address is…”

“Yes! No problem, I’ll just find a few youngsters to do it and even have them move it up to your house.” Zhao Huzi sat on the military chair and said, “There are a few youngsters who just finished recruit training. It’s good to let them exercise more. Right, I haven’t congratulated you on getting famous after the two fights. Come back to Shenyang, I will treat you for dinner.”

“It’s enough to just transport it here, I can move it up myself.” Qin Fen hung up and looked at the two people, “Let’s go to Shenyang now?”

The three men went out and stopped two taxis on the roadside. Qin Fen took the same car with Kyokushin Genichi, while Hashimoto Nagashiro sat alone and went straight to the airport.

The distance from Tianbei City to Shenyang in a straight-line wasn’t really very far. They bought three flight tickets with the closest departure time. The three people walked into the cabin. Qin Fen did not rush to sit down but instead observed every passenger on the plane.

As a person who could somehow encounter a hijack every single time he took a civil aviation plane, Qin Fen had now developed a habit of observing passengers and onboard surroundings immediately to see if there may be hijackers.

Once he had determined that there was no hidden danger, Qin Fen peacefully took his seat. With the plane taking off and landing, he returned to Shenyang once again.

When he got off the plane and turned the phone on, Qin Fen found that there were two missed calls and opened the voice message box to hear that it was a young man’s message.

“Colonel Qin, we came downstairs of where you live and found the property company to open the door of your home. Anyway, since guarding these items were boring, we helped you to move them in…”

“Colonel Qin… you have a bunch of people here… what are you doing? These are the items we brought in…”

The recording in the second half of the phone was obviously not directed towards Qin Fen. The sound behind it became rowdier as time passed. In the blink of an eye, the recording abruptly ended.

Qin Fen looked at the time – it was a matter of a minute ago. He had a gut feeling that something was amiss. He took the two of them directly to find the two most expensive magnetic flying cars to go straight to the community residence on the outskirts of the city.

As time passes and society develops, Shenyang had annexed several nearby cities and formed a huge super modern city. Qin Fen’s house was relatively far from the center of Shenyang, and the magnetic car took nearly an hour to reach his residential community.

Looking down from the sky, this newly built residential community was very beautiful, the greenery around it was denser than what was shown on the poster, it looked modernistic yet quiet and elegant so that the people who have bought the houses here would feel like it was a bargain.

The magnetic flying car entered the community and the environment in front of his residence made him frown slowly.

This empty space in front of his lot, which should be as clean the other buildings, was littered with smashed furniture. The bags of sand and cement were torn and scattered everywhere, and the sand and cement were covering the ground.

In the center of the scene, there were three young people on the ground. Even if you look at it from a distance, people with good eyesight could see that the three young people are covered in blood.

In addition to the three young people on the ground, there were more than a dozen people standing or sitting around and occasionally pointing to the three young people and laughing, or silently bowing their heads and taking a puff of their cigarettes.

The taxi descended to a distance of five meters from the ground. The driver looked back at Qin Fen with an embarrassed look, “Is it okay to see if you can jump out on your own, or perhaps I’ll descend another meter away…”

Qin Fen looked at the taxi driver’s embarrassed look. He gently shook his head and opened the door and jumped.

In such a situation, with such an atmosphere, the reasons for the following events below, perhaps people who do not know the development of the matter did not know, but even those who did not know the cause of the problem understood that a fight took place; the police did not appear.

Thud… thud… thud!

Qin Fen and Kyokushin Genichi landed on the ground one after the other. Hashimoto Nagashiro’s huge body slammed the ground on landing and made a loud noise. Even the inanimate sand and cement on the ground trembled slightly.

More than a dozen smokers who were around stood up and silently formed a circle to surround Qin Fen.