As the voice fell, he opened the parcel in his hand to reveal stack after stack of cash, emitting the scent of ink.
"Mr. Aoyama, no offense," Xiao Chi Pinggu grinned, his teeth shockingly white against his dark skin. He stepped forward first and searched Aoyama Sosuke, then said, "Please, Councilor, come inside."
Aoyama Sosuke, carrying the money bag, walked into the tea house.
Soon after, Renping Kuniaki also arrived, went through the same treatment as Aoyama Sosuke before being admitted, and Xiao Chi Pinggu followed into the tea house and slowly closed the door, locking it from the inside.
Aoyama Xiu Xin, Elena, Jin Yucheng, and a group of Daokuan Association men went around to the back door of the tea house, using a ladder requisitioned from a merchant by virtue of their police identity, and one by one climbed over the wall into the tea house.
At the same time, in the tea house lobby.
