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Burning Years (2023) 似火流年 Episode 4 Recap & Review

Episode 4: The gangster returns to the south of the city to cause trouble

He Erqing was a feared gangster leader in the south of the city in the early years. He escaped because of a crime a few years ago. Now that the news has subsided, he returned to the south of the city by train. In the past, when his younger brother went to pick him up, he already looked down upon him and refused to give him any more. He even asked his subordinates to criticize him. When the car reached an uninhabited area, he gave his brothers some change as a reminder, and the change gave these people a bloody blow, giving them a severe blow.

Zhong Yunan wanted to make another big sum of money, so he made an appointment with Wang Lei to meet at Situ Noodle House. Wang Lei arrived first, followed by Xu Weibiao and the other three. Although Wang Lei arrived first, he just sat there waiting for someone and did not order any noodles, which made the noodle shop owner complain.

Just when Xu Weibiao said that everyone should be divided into 1, 2, 3 and 4, Zhong Yunan came and said that he wanted to be the boss and Xu Weibiao was the second. Xu Weibiao disagreed and almost started making trouble again. Zhong Yunan has a way to make money, and this time he is going to take everyone with him to help the developer clear out the bad households. Wang Weiguo knew that Zhong Yunan was Zhong’s second son, so he immediately made the payment first.

Xu Weibiao and four others came to the box and found that many nail households did not leave at all. He carried and helped people away, but before they could finish cleaning, these people ran back again. Zhong Yunan sought advice from two of his father’s men responsible for loan sharking, and they followed suit and frightened the residents with unedged knives.

This trick worked, but when they met Mr. Zai’er, their plan to scare people failed again. Zhong Yunan, without telling Xu Weibiao and Lin Zhihua, teamed up with Zhang Peng and Wang Lei to steal Master Zai’er’s real estate certificate. During this process, Zhang Peng accidentally broke the urn of Mr. Zai’er’s late wife, climbed out of the wall and was captured by two security team members. Catch him right. Zhang Peng made a joke and ran away while the two were not paying attention.

This time they were unlucky and ran into a dead end. Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, Mr. Zai’er showed up and said that nothing was missing, and asked the security team to release Zhang Peng. Zhang Peng knew that he was wicked, so he spent all his money to buy an urn from Wang Lei, and when he delivered it to Master Zai’er, he accidentally saw Ding Yizheng and others destroying Master Zai’er’s house.

Zhang Peng went back to Xu Weibiao and others for help, but was beaten to a pulp. Master Zai’er knew that he was getting old, so he packed up and decided to leave this home. After He Erqing gained a foothold, he sought revenge on Jie Zi and directly disabled his other hand. He Erqing started to cause trouble, smashed the dance hall, and brought out Snake San’er, who was covering the dance hall behind him.

She San’er saw Ding Yi outside and initially thought it was Jie Zi’s people causing trouble, but later realized that he had kicked an iron plate and had no choice but to admit defeat. After that, He Erqing recruited some more people and began to engage in unscrupulous things such as vandalism, looting, and collecting protection fees, which made the streets full of smoke and panic. The Public Security Bureau specially asked ordinary people to investigate, and public security improved.

However, this is ultimately just treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. We still need to trace the root cause and uproot it from the source. At that time, there was a gang in the south of the city, including Chang Ying, She San, Li Jie, Zhong Er Ye, Tang Zong, Xiao Ban and Da Ban, Lao Dao, and the leader was Cheng San Ye. He Erqing’s trouble caused them a lot of trouble. Cheng Sanye summoned these people to meet in a darkroom behind the pharmacy. There was a word “righteousness” in the darkroom.