The two girls were all wrapped up in bath robes. The timidness on their faces made Xiao Bing want to love and protect them.The two girls approached Xiao Bing and he could not help fixing his eyes on them. "You"re truly like lotus flowers out of the water. Your skin is as smooth as silk. I believe that no living man will say no to this," Xiao Bing complimented them.
Jiang Yinghong smiled while looking at the two girls. "You should feel lucky. Mr. Xiao is a handsome young man. You must make him happy."
Xiao Bing grinned. "That"s not necessary."
Upon hearing that, the two girls took off their robes and dropped them on the floor simultaneously.
Xiao Bing gasped when he fixed his eyes on their slim bodies and smooth skin. No man on earth could resist the temptation if he found these two girls standing naked in front him, let alone these girls were twins. One would turn into a beast when he saw their timid faces.
The two girls were still standing in front of him with their eyes fixed on the tips of their toes. Their innocence was mingled with temptation, which was more than enough to drive a man crazy.
Master Hou guffawed. "I"ll take a rest in the waiting room. I"ll give you one hour and then we"ll go to dinner. Haha!"
What this one hour was for was obvious.
While Master Hou was about to leave, Xiao Bing"s face suddenly turned sullen. "Put on your robes!"
Master Hou halted and Jiang Yinghou cast a glance of surprise at Xiao Bing. The two girls knelt before Xiao Bing at the same time.
Any man who had a little sense of sympathy would not allow these two pretty little girls to kneel on the ground. Most of them could not help taking them in their arms and comforting the girls, and maybe taking a little advantage of them at the same time.
Xiao Bing was also a protective man.
Xiao Bing bent down, picked up a robe, and covered a girl with it. He did the same for the other girl.
Jing Yinghong opened her mouth wide. There was a beam of light shimmering in Master Hou"s eyes. Then he laughed out loud, "Lil Bing, that"s not man-like."
"Men should be faithful to their wives." Xiao Bing grinned. "Yezi will be my wife. Master Hou, this is a gift I can"t accept."
Master Hou spoke with a smile. "I never thought that you were such a decent man."
"I am done being a womanizer. Now Yezi is my only love. The twins are beautiful and attractive. And they are virgins, right? I can tell. Ms. Jiang, please don"t blame it on them. It"s not their fault. I just don"t want to do it."
Jiang Yinghong laughed. "I won"t push you. You two can leave."
The two girls nodded their heads.
Then they slowly arose and wrapped themselves up tightly in the bath robes. They took an extra glimpse at Xiao Bing before their left. They seemed to have affection in their eyes.
After the twins had left, Jiang Yinghong rolled her eyes affectionately to Master Hou and said to him coquettishly, "What a faithful man he is, unlike the man standing next to me right now. If you had half of his dedication, then I wouldn"t regret this life after I died."
Master Hou took her in his arms and guffawed. "Sweetheart, how can I let you die? So I"d better not learn from him."
Laughter fell over the party.
"Come. I"ll take you to a restaurant to have a bite. Nine Heavens was established by me five years ago and now it ranks 5th in the top 10 entertainment places of China. The things you can eat and play there is way beyond your imagination. I surmise that friend of yours has eaten and been offered a place to have fun."
"I"m afraid that it"s not a place solely for fun."
Master Hou stared meaningfully at Xiao Bing and grinned, "Xiao Bing, you are a smart man, too smart. I even feel scared."
Xiao Bing shook his head. "I suppose Master Hou knows that I"m not a man without experience, since I"m able to invite Zang Yizhi. I may not be very clever but I have seen many things."
"Really. Hahaha." Master Hou nodded his head. "Yes. It"s a place mainly for two things: information and profit. The turnover in Nine Heavens is a shocking number since the cost of its service is very high. Although, it can"t compare with the Ye Group, which is the pillar of the economy of Jiang City. The yearly pure profit of Nine Heavens is about 200,000, which is the money I pay to my men."
Xiao Bing nodded his head. "Many young boys think the gang is all about fighting and killing, that"s why they can only be rascals. Even though the Four Heavenly Kings under your leadership have their own a.s.sets, let alone a king like you, at least there must be a bunch of boys guarding their a.s.sets or someone important. They will quit if there is no payment for them."
Master Hou laughed out loud. "Good. Besides the Nine Heavens, I"m running several small businesses in Jiang City. The yearly pure profit they can make is about 30 million. "And the Four Heavenly Kings can support themselves to some extent, so I only have to give them half of that 30 million every year."
"The rest is for the days after the expansion?" questioned Xiao Bing.
Master Hou sighed. "It feels good to talk to someone clever like you, but I have to be defensive as well."
Xiao Bing grinned. "It"s just some petty trick, Master Hou."
"Besides profit, I a.s.sume you have figured out its other function. The people who often come here are not ordinary men. So if you come here frequently, you can meet many people who can be of help. And the government can only turn a blind eye to it. So money and power can both be traded here, and no one has to worry about anything."
Xiao Bing was impressed. "Maybe it"s because so many important figures are involved that your property can be absolutely safe. If this is the case, I a.s.sume that the government officers must respect you very much."
Master Hou guffawed. "That"s correct. Come, you don"t want to miss the delicious food here."
The first floor was the bathing center and rooms for chess, poker, billiards, and bowling. The second floor was the food section. Xiao Bing did not see Dumba.s.s on the second floor. But he did not worry about Dumba.s.s because nearly no one in this city could harm him. And this was Master Hou"s property. Everything was under his control.
After they entered the second floor, everyone greeted Master Hou warmly and he greeted them back with a smile. Master Hou was like a sleeping tiger that seemed harmless. But when he had the intention to kill, one might already get themselves killed when he still thought that Master Hou was sleeping.
Men like him were the scariest. That was because no one knew if he was happy or angry or what he was thinking about.
They all cast Xiao Bing a glance of curiosity. Some of them had paid a visit to the memorial ceremony. The ones who had not seen Xiao Bing before all wondered what kind of man he was because Master Hou showed him such hospitality. In their memory, there were no more than five people in Jiang City who could be welcomed like this by Master Hou. One was Ye Bancheng, who was already dead. The other four were all government officers in this city.
In one of the restaurants, there was a table especially for Master Hou, where no one else was allowed to sit. After Xiao Bing, Master Hou and Jiang Ying seated themselves. Soon afterward, a waiter gave Master Hou a menu, but then he gave it to Xiao Bing.
Xiao Bing took a look at the menu and was shocked by the diversity of the rare wild animals they could offer. Some of them were even under the protection of the law. But the price was rather high. Xiao Bing surmised that it would cost hundreds of thousand for just one time in this restaurant without even ordering drinks.
Grinning, Xia Bing spoke. "Master Hou, I believe you know what to order better than me."
"Okay." Master Hou took the menu and ordered several dishes and a bottle of wine. Then he gave the menu back to the beautiful waitress who was smiling sweetly all the time. Apparently, she had been carefully chosen to be here.
After the waitress had left, Xiao Bing could not help complimenting him. "This is truly a fancy place."
"I will take it as a sincere compliment."
The two then laughed together. After they became allies, they had the intention to become closer to each other, no matter if it was artificial or not. At least they were polite to each other on the surface.
After they finished the food, Xiao Bing asked someone to bring Dumba.s.s to him. Then, they politely refused Master Hou"s invitation to stay longer and left.
Master Hou watched Xiao Bing leaving. Then he cast a glance at Jing Yinghong and asked with aloofness, "What do you think of Xiao Bing?"
Master Hou trusted Jiang Yinghong"s sharp judgment.
"He"s a brave man to refuse your invitation. He"s also a smart man since he proposed the alliance to you. And he"s even immune to the seduction of two beauties, which proves that he"s an ambitious man. Anyway, he"s really a scary man..."
"Scary..." Master Hou smiled gently. "Others would have killed him if they were to find someone like him in their territory."
"But Master Hou wouldn"t." Jiang Yinghong giggled as if she knew this man"s mind. "Because you"re able to make them bend their knees. You have set your eyes on the three provinces in the north. How can you defeat the Long family and take what your desire without taking in talents in this world?"
Master Hou put this mind-reading woman in his arms and laughed out loud.