The warm sun of early spring ruthlessly poured onto the asphalt road.
Suizi led Wang Cuihua toward the agreed-upon meeting place.
"Suizi, where are you taking me?" Wang Cuihua asked.
"You'll see when we get there."
The location Yu Shuilian told Suizi about was on West Street, an area in the city not yet developed. The district wasn't very large, and it only took about ten minutes by foot to reach it.
The warehouses on West Street were sited along the street. They were called warehouses, but the doors were typically left open, with two tables for Mahjong inside, frequently serving as a gathering place for players.
Something akin to a social parlour in later generations, it was jam-packed and rife with unsavoury characters of all sort.
The closer they got to their destination, the tighter Suizi's handgrip became.
Suizi was taken aback by Yu Shuilian's choice of this location as the meeting place.