Not far away in the darkness, a woman was also stunned.
"There are experts..." She held her breath, carefully stepped back along the corner, and gradually disappeared into the shadows.
"It's an assassin, an assassin who came specifically to kill you." Card Xiu glanced at the pale-faced Phil in the distance and said slowly.
"What is your family's business?"
At night, the yellow light of the street lamps blends with the shadows.
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"This is your home?" Ka Xiu looked over from a distance.
In front of you is a gray-white manor, with tall walls and forged iron gates. You can vaguely see the tree crowns, and the towering spiers of the houses can be seen dimly in the distance. The line of sight shifts to the left and right, and this seems to be a villa area.
Most of the rich people in Shirakawa City own a property here.
"Yes, but I don't actually live here. I usually live on Honeysuckle Street, which is relatively close to the school. This is where my brother usually lives, and my mother occasionally lives here."
Phil spoke word by word, and it was obvious that his brain was a little sluggish. He was probably frightened just now.
"Then let's go."
Ka Xiu picked at his nails and found a layer of blood stain inside.
Half an hour later, in a brightly lit and warm hall, on a brown leather sofa, Phil was holding a white porcelain cup in his hand, sipping the hot coffee in it.
The panic seemed to have calmed down a lot.
The decoration of the entire hall is low-key and luxurious, with very bright crystal lamps hung on the top. Pale golden thorn flower patterns can be seen everywhere on the walls, which seem to be imprinted wallpapers. Above the patterns, there are also colorful and blurry oil paintings of landscapes.
Log tables and chairs, velvet cushions, glass coffee tables, and several young and beautiful maids who serve tea and water from time to time.
It can be seen that Phil is indeed not an ordinary family. According to him, his father and brother both run several cross-city companies.
Cardiff is sitting next to Phil. In front of him is a transparent coffee table with three milky white coffee saucers, with gold edges. Opposite him is also a sofa, with a handsome young man sitting on it, who has a kind of exquisite elegance.
temperament.
Matthew, Phil's brother, is twenty-six years old.
His facial features are grand, deep and three-dimensional. His brown hair is combed back, revealing his full forehead. He wears a pair of half-moon-shaped gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. His skin is a healthy light copper color, not fair. Matthew is wearing white.
There seems to be a silver-white metal chain of a pocket watch hanging in the breast pocket of his shirt.
"I have sent people to deal with those corpses. It's really thanks to Mr. Levi's presence this time, otherwise Phil would have been in trouble." Matthew gently put down the coffee cup in his hand.
"It's not in the way, it's just a little effort."
Ka Xiu took a sip of coffee and swallowed it slowly.
"Brother, why would someone come to assassinate me? It's really scary! When I saw the dagger, I was stunned and my mind went blank. Fortunately..." Phil glanced at the man next to him.
Ka Xiu, with gratitude in his eyes.
"Since you asked, I won't hide it from you." Matthew glanced at Cardiff and said, "Mr. Levi, there is no need to avoid it."
What Matthew said next was very informative.
In short, the Phil family does not run an ordinary company, but a gray company, somewhere between black and white. And the company's main business is also very simple, one word "wine".
You must know that the Red Lebanese Federation clearly implemented the prohibition on alcohol from February 130 in the federal calendar until June 151 in the federal calendar and wrote the law into the constitution. This bill is called the Trent Prohibition Act.
Implemented on February 18, 2013.
According to this law, it is illegal to manufacture, sell or even transport drinks with an alcohol content of more than 0.6%. Drinking at home is not illegal, but drinking with friends or holding a banquet is illegal, and offenders will be fined.
The maximum penalty is a fine of 3,500 red Lebanese federal coins and imprisonment for half a year. Only people over the age of 20 can buy alcohol, and they need to show proof of age, and can only buy it in restricted places.
This bill was intended to advocate prohibition of alcohol and reduce social crime problems. However, Prohibition caused the proliferation of illegal alcohol, and many people enriched themselves by selling illegal alcohol. Prohibition also allowed some gang-related organizations to flourish, and they made huge profits from it.
After June 151 of the Federal Calendar, the federal government repealed this law and lifted restrictions on the private sale of private alcohol.
Theoretically, anyone can open a company and sell alcohol after obtaining a sales order. But in fact, some organizations have become deeply entrenched in alcohol after twenty years of development.
Their power reaches into the dark corners and becomes entangled.
So in fact, if a liquor company wants to sell liquor in a county or a city, it will absolutely not be able to bypass those organizations, and it must agree on a share with each other. And it will inevitably deal with them when carrying out other business.
Kangnan Company founded by Phil's father is backed by a large gang-related organization in Beiliu County: Ace of Spades. This is one of the largest organizations in Beiliu County and has a wide range of interests. On the surface, formal industries include selling alcohol.
Tobacco, transportation, etc.
Privately, they resell prohibited items, such as firearms, antiques of unknown origin, medicines, etc. Of course, sometimes Ace of Spades will also provide protection or assassination services, which are expensive.
Generally speaking, no one would mess with a local snake like Ace of Spades in Beiliu County. But in recent months, an organization named Shachen suddenly appeared in Beiliu County. The Shachen organization is quite powerful, and its subordinates have
Very aggressive.
Several other major organizations in Beiliu County have suffered losses at the hands of the Sand Organization, and this time, they are eyeing the Ace of Spades.
As a result, even companies like Kangnan that had business dealings with Ace of Spades suffered unforeseen disasters. They were very precise in identifying the key points, and they chose Phil, who was the easiest to prey on.
"That's it." Ka Xiu took a sip of coffee.
Phil next to him was even more shocked than him. Phil originally thought that his family ran a transportation company or a beverage company. But he didn't expect that the main business was alcohol, and it was also related to some organizations.
Ten minutes later, Phil came to his own room in the villa and found the purple wood cane in the corner.
Phil was not very interested in antiques, so Phil never played with the cane carefully after Matthew gave it to him.
Coach Levi saved his life and is an antique lover, so it was just right to give him this cane.
Thump thump thump…
Phil walked down with an arm-length purple cane in his hand and handed it to Cardiff without any hesitation.
Ka Xiu clicked his tongue and took it solemnly.
The moment his fingers touched the cane, the bitter taste in Kaxiu's mouth was extremely strong, even more bitter than sugar-free coffee.