Insufficient balance

  After sitting for about half an hour, Ye Yizhe followed Li Hu to Huahe Road.

  Huaihe Road is the gathering place for nightlife in Jiangzhou City, where many bars and nightclubs are concentrated. For those who like to go clubbing, this place can meet all their needs.

  Of course, the dark side here is also much more than in other places. Various hidden rules are hidden among them. What the police can control is only a small part, and most of them are divided by various forces.

  Apart from Qing Bang, no one dares to say that they can absolutely control this place, even if Li Hu has controlled the entire East City.

  Because this place is at the intersection of four forces from east, west, south and north.

  Dongcheng, Hu Tou Bang, Li Hu.

  Xi Cheng, Qilin Club, Han Shaokun.

  Nancheng, Chi Lian Tang, Lei Nu.

  Beicheng, Fenghuang She, Fēng Sì Niáng.

  These four gangs are directly under the control of the Green Gang, and they manage all underground organizations in Jiangzhou. The Phoenix Association has the strongest influence, while Li Hu's Tiger Head Gang is the weakest due to its short history.

  So in name, Jiangzhou was divided among them, but in reality, it was controlled by the Qingbang family alone.

  Following Li Hu to this bar called "Fang Fei", Ye Yizhe listened to Li Hu's explanation while walking.

  "This bar is the quietest and cleanest one on this street, it's managed by Phoenix Corporation because its president Feng Si Niang is a woman, so everyone has to behave themselves. I know you don't like too much noise, Leaf Brother, and you don't want to see those shady things, it'll be better here."

  Ye Yizhe nodded and said: "The four major forces, one of them is actually controlled by a woman. This woman is not simple."

  "Hmm, indeed, to be honest, I'm not afraid of Qilin or Red Practice Hall, in Jiangzhou, apart from the Green Gang, the only one that makes me wary is this Phoenix Association. Women, especially powerful women, and even more so in Jiangzhou, how many are ordinary characters? So, Yezi brother, I remind you, don't casually offend women in Jiangzhou before you have a grasp on them."

  "Where did you come up with so many theories?" Ye Yizhe said with a laugh, seeing Li Hu's serious face.

  "After being on the road for a long time, you can slowly sum up some things." Li Hu said, sizing up Ye Yizhe before continuing, "However, Brother Ye, you shouldn't have any problems. With your capital, I'm sure these troublesome women will all flock to your bed. You just need to be careful not to overexert yourself."

  Li Hu flashed forward and ran away, avoiding Ye Yizhe's fierce punch. He laughed in front of him and said: "Brother Ye, why don't you go after that Feng Siniang?"

  Watching the little tiger jumping ahead, Ye Yizhe put down his hand and followed in with a smile.

  As Li Hu said, this place is much quieter than the other bars. The surrounding places outside were filled with laughter and music, but when I came in here, except for a few singers on stage singing rock songs, most people were sitting aside listening to the music, chatting with each other about their own affairs, without interfering with each other.

  As soon as Li Hu and his friends came in, two young ladies quickly surrounded them.

  "Hey, what wind is this that has blown Brother Tiger here today? Fourth Sister isn't around today, but she's already given instructions. If you have any business, Brother Tiger, just give the orders!" They were not usually seen in other people's establishments, except for when Li Hu came to support them when they first opened, and hadn't appeared again since. So suddenly showing up like this, who would think he was just here to have some fun?

  It was Li Hu who was destined to disappoint the members of Feng Huang Society, who had suddenly tightened their guard due to his appearance. Li Hu slapped one of the ladies on the butt with a "slap" sound: "Long time no see, Little Wei, your butt is perked up again! Today, I, Brother Tiger, have nothing important to do, don't be so tense, find me a quiet private room and get two quiet female singers to sing in the room. I have a friend coming over today, and I'll help him clean up."

  The girl called Xiaowei listened to Li Hu's words and was stunned, then burst out laughing: "This is convenient, didn't Fourth Sister entertain you in the private room when you came for the first time? Can Brother Hu do this?"

  Xiao Wei spoke while subtly moving her buttocks away from Li Hu's hand, pointing ahead and saying to Li Hu: "Brother Tiger, this way please."

  Xiao Wei led a group of people to the second floor, where Ye Yizhe noticed that most of the private rooms were filled with singing voices, occasionally accompanied by a few coquettish cries of "Don't want to!" It wasn't hard to guess what was going on inside. This was the outside world that Master had refused to explain, telling him to experience it for himself instead. Although Ye Yizhe didn't like it much, he was determined to learn from these experiences. Having chosen to leave his hometown, he needed to familiarize himself with the rules of the outside world - a fact he understood better than anyone else.

  Rules, this is the last word that Master emphasized again and again on his last day of walking, and also the place where he was most worried about Ye Yizhe, for fear that he would inadvertently break someone else's rules.

  Since you're familiar with it, let's start getting familiar with the underworld then.

  Followed Xiaowei all the way to a corner at the very back and pushed open the door to enter.

  Ye Yizhe only then discovered that inside was a different kind of paradise, just this one private room, according to his visual estimate, should be nearly 100 square meters in size, inside were placed all sorts of wine cabinets, at first glance they were obviously very valuable, in the frontmost part there was a large screen, in front of the screen there was also a circular stage of about 30 square meters, presumably used for letting dancers dance.

  After some thought, this room is just a miniature version of the bar downstairs.

  "Hey Yezi, what do you think of this place?" Li Hu looked at Ye Yizhe with a flattering expression.

  Ye Yizhe nodded and walked over to the central part of the sofa and sat down, Li Hu followed, his younger brother also sat on either side.

  Xiao Wei saw this scene and was shocked. She had always thought of Ye Yizhe as a follower, but now she realized that she had completely misjudged her. Thinking back to what Li Hu said earlier, Xiao Wei wondered if this was the friend that Li Hu had personally come to accompany. With this in mind, Xiao Wei asked tentatively: "Tiger brother, who is this?"

  "He, he's just..." Li Hu was about to boast a few words when he saw Ye Yizhe make a gesture and hastily changed his tone: "He's just a friend, not someone from the underworld, don't worry. Go call over a few clever princesses to help us pour wine."

  Just then, a anxious voice came from outside the door: "Ge Kun, you can't go in."

  "What? When did Fangfei have a place that I couldn't enter?" A thick, middle-aged man's voice sounded from outside, and then only heard an "ah" sound, the girl blocking the door was directly pushed away, and the private room door was kicked open with a "bang".

  The man at the front had deep fish-tail marks at the corners of his eyes, as if he had experienced many hardships, but his body was sturdy and looked like he was in his prime. As he entered, seven or eight younger brothers followed him in. When they saw Li Hu sitting to one side, they loudly exclaimed: "I thought it was someone else, but it's actually our Brother Hu! Brother Hu is really awesome now, I let my pigeon go and didn't expect to see you here!"

  Li Hu's face turned slightly gloomy: "Han Shaokun, how did you find this place?"

  His actions may not be confidential, but it's not easy to find out so quickly, and this one came too suddenly.

  "Hmph!" Han Shaokun sneered, "If you want to blame someone, blame your good luck. We're all small fries, after being stood up, we naturally have to come out and have some fun, right brothers? Coincidentally, we saw your group, so we followed our Tiger Brother in."

  "What do you want to do!" Li Hu stood up, glaring at Han Shaokun. If it were usual times, he wouldn't be so anxious, but after boasting in front of Ye Yizhe, being disrupted like this made him lose face. Even if Ye Yizhe didn't think that way, it was still unacceptable!

  "What do I want? Li Hu, let me put it bluntly, if you don't apologize and pour wine for me today, don't think about leaving this door safely!" Han Shaokun saw that Li Hu was different from usual, hesitated for a moment, and then said coldly, "Not only that, the plot of land I wanted to talk to you about before must also be unconditionally transferred to me. Hmph, otherwise, I'll let you have a good time going out but not coming back!"

  "Kun Ge, this is Si Jie's territory, you see?" Seeing the situation, Xiao Wei hastily called out and at the same time gave a signal to the maid by the door. Both sides were people she couldn't afford to offend, unless Si Jie returned, otherwise there was no way to clean up.

  "It's your turn to talk now." Han Shaokun pushed Xiao Wei away and walked up to Li Hu, and the younger brother who followed him quickly surrounded Li Hu and his men.

  He glanced at Han Shaokun with disdain and Li Hu sneered: "Can the few of you keep me here?"

  Han Shaokun hummed: "Do you think I'm that stupid? Li Hu, Li Hu, I know you're very capable of fighting, so..."

  As soon as Han Shaokun clapped his hands, dozens of people rushed into the room from the doorway in an instant, filling it up completely.

  Li Hu didn't say a word, staring fiercely at Han Shaokun, making him feel a chill in his heart and take two steps back. Li Hu's bravery was something he had always known about; otherwise, it would have been impossible for him to reach the same level as him in just a few years. But thinking of the many people behind him, he gained confidence: "As long as you admit your mistake here, Han Shaokun, and hand over that territory to me, this matter will be settled today, and from now on, we'll mind our own business."

  "Leave a thread of life, and meet again in the future." Li Hu said word by word.

  "With so many people around, I'll leave you to your sister!" Han Shaokun couldn't help but spit a mouthful of saliva onto the floor in front of Li Hu's feet. The dozens of people behind him burst out laughing, while Li Hu's face turned red and then pale, his clenched fists showing bulging veins, and his breathing became much heavier.

  "Wait, I'll go." Just as Li Hu was about to step forward and take action, Ye Yizhe pulled him back and pressed him down, saying so. Then, Ye Yizhe walked up to Han Shaokun and his group.

  The two men who followed Li Hu looked at him worriedly, they knew the position of Ye Yizhe in their boss's heart, no matter what happened, they couldn't bear it. But now they found that Li Hu didn't have any worries at all, instead he was surprised and said: "Brother Ye, you can make your move?"

  Ye Yizhe smiled and nodded, and couldn't help but recall that just this June, the second day was the college entrance examination, which is the most important moment for every third-year high school student. Although an exam of this level was simply child's play for him, he was still very entangled, entangled with another matter.

  The phone suddenly received a text message from an unfamiliar number.

  "The ten-year agreement has been dissolved."

  Ye Yizhe saw this scene, smiled lightly, looked at the pile of reference books on the table, and directly pushed them all to the ground. He stood up, looked out the window, and muttered: "Then tomorrow will give everyone a surprise."

  A month later, the college entrance examination results were released. The top scorer in Gao Yuan Province was Ye Yizhe with a score of 690 points. This young man from a small town who was previously unknown suddenly appeared on the front page of major newspapers, but no one could know his scores for each subject because this information was completely blocked by the Ministry of Education.

  It was on the second day that the presidents of Huqing and Yanjing Universities personally came to Gaoyuan Province, inviting Ye Yizhe to go with them. Ye Yizhe then made a decision that enraged heaven and man, refusing the two men and going to Jiangzhou instead.

  Ye Yizhe's high school entrance exam essay scored 60 points, causing a huge controversy. In the voting between full marks and zero marks, he finally got zero marks by just one vote.

  If there wasn't that one point of difference, he would have been the first student to achieve full marks in the Gaokao since the implementation of the college entrance examination system in China, unprecedented and unlikely to be surpassed.

  Ye Yizhe himself did not know that overnight, his name shocked the entire Ministry of Education and reached the ears of the heavens, and all his materials were placed on the desk of the State Council.

  The Ministry of Education has caused a stir out of nowhere.