He started out as a bricklayer on construction sites in Harbin. Some people called him Song Yongjia; others called him “Bridge Fourth.”
That year, the project payments were overdue, his brothers had been beaten up, and even the restaurant was about to stop letting him run up a tab. Qiao Si walked into a construction site in Daoli with his tool bag, intending only to get the money he was owed. He never imagined that this one step would pull him into two decades of underworld life in the Ice City.
From demolition crews to the construction business, from small tables in restaurants to private rooms in nightclubs, from a few poor brothers to a crowd relying on him to make a living, Qiao Si climbed the ladder one step at a time. Li Zhengguang, Hao the Lame, Xiao Ke, Yang Mantou: some valued loyalty, some wanted money, some would risk their lives, and some were bound to turn against him sooner or later.
Snow fell on Harbin year after year, but the underworld's debts only kept piling up.
He rose through sheer ruthlessness, only to be trapped by it. He thought his brothers could weather anything, but later learned that anyone could change when their interests were at stake.
This is an old tale from the Ice City about Qiao Si.
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