“You two are orphans, why did you lie to me about having adults in your family? This computer isn’t yours either, it’s that teacher Lin’s.” I found out that these two had lied when Lu Zheng said earlier that the brothers had always gone home together, so no one else would touch the family’s things.
“I… I ……”
“Tell the truth! Or I’ll tell Chen Yu Zhou right now!”
“Big brother, my brother won’t let me tell, he says if I tell the truth, you’ll look down on us even more.”
“Does an orphan look down on you? I’ve been an orphan since I was seven, so sit down and tell me what’s going on.” I let out a long sigh, this kid was much better at scaring than Lu Zheng, if I were asking Lu Zheng now, I’m afraid Lu Zheng would just make up another reason to fool me.
Lu Yu was so frightened by me that he sat down with his hands still on his knees, like a schoolboy listening to a lecture.
“My parents left three years ago, and it was Teacher Lin who always took care of us. Teacher Lin is my junior high school old yes, but she’s especially nice and treats me well.”
“So don’t you want to take revenge on Teacher Lin?”
“I want to, but we need the money more …… Brother you really don’t ask us why we need the money, my brother won’t let us talk about it. I can’t hide my words, I told you today, my brother will know soon and he will have to lecture me again then. Anyway, we really aren’t doing it for ourselves.”
“Not for your brother either?”
He called up, “My brother got into the key high school where we are, and room and board are free!”
I lost my voice and laughed, seeing that Lu Zheng was very clever.
“My brother said that what we were doing was too dangerous and the less information that was exposed the better, so he wouldn’t let me tell the truth.”
I said, “So what’s your real name?”
“I’m not lying about that, my brother even said that if we worked with you, you would not trust us if we even had a fake name.”
I believed that Lu Yu was telling the truth, but I wouldn’t be as good a liar as Lu Yu.
After I helped them extort money, these two boys would ask me to credit their account, and they would definitely have to use their real names.
At that moment there was a knock on the door outside and Lao Gan asked in a muffled voice, “Young master, what do you want from me?”
I went over and opened the door, pointing at Lu Yu before opening it, signalling that the conversation he had just had was not to be told.
As soon as Lu Zheng entered, he looked suspiciously at Lu Yu who was sitting upright. Lu Yu was so nervous that he was sweating, this guy really couldn’t hide anything on his mind.
“Old Gan, how much cash do you have on you? Take it all for the two kids, I’ll return the money to you in a few days.”
Without asking too many questions, Old Gan gave Lu Yu the money he had just won back and all the principal he had on him, and when Lu Yu took a look, he turned his hand to Lu Zheng.
Lu Zheng was so dumbfounded that he couldn’t even hold it in his two hands.
“Here, there’s a whole hundred thousand in here.” Lu Zheng said, “We only need ninety-two thousand.”
I said, “It’s safest to give you the cash, the further you go later the better.”
Lu Zheng was probably too dazed by the huge excitement to react at once, Lu Yu was so excited he was jumping up and down, and Lao Gan was dumbfounded by the two boys.
They gave me the computer and the bag was empty, just enough to put the cash in, and when it was full, Lu Zheng pulled Lu Yu to leave.
When we reached the door, Lu Yu turned back and said, “Chao, what would you do with this video?”
“It’s no longer relevant to us.” Lu Zheng said.
Lu Yu had a lost look on his face and drooped his head.
I asked, “Do you want revenge?”
“Yes, of course I want to!”
Lu Zheng was a little embarra*sed, and kept urging Lu Yu to go quickly.
I laughed, “But all of this is also none of your business anymore, this is the agreement of our deal.”
I walked over and opened the door for the two of them, then made a gesture of invitation. Lu Yu, unable to hide his loss and sadness, was dragged out by Lu Zheng.
“Young master, what’s happened?” Lao Gan asked me when he saw me close the door.
“Oh, that money ah ……”
Before I could finish, Old Gan said, “I’m not asking about the money, your father and I are old acquaintances too, I can still afford to pay such a small amount of money. I was looking at you as if you were in a bad mood, these two boys you know?”
I rubbed my face and thought to myself, “Am I in a bad mood? It just so happened that next to the door was the cloak-and-hat mirror, and when I looked, I really did look like I was in a bad mood.
Could it be that their orphan status reminded me of my past?
I laughed bitterly, “This D*mn weather, when will the rain stop.”
“By the looks of it, it will probably rain for another day. We can’t wait for the typhoon to stop, as soon as it comes out, Liu Rong will start moving too, we have to be ahead of him!”
I knew Old Gan had a point, but where could we get out in this hellish weather?
“We’ll see, we definitely can’t now, at least not until it rains a little less.” I said.
All day long, Baldy hadn’t come out, he hadn’t even eaten. Old Gump was scared of Baldy and was just happy not to meet him. We slept again in the hotel, and the next day we saw that the rain had let up a little.
He said he couldn’t stay any longer and had to leave in the rain. We went to the owner of the hotel and borrowed a Wuling Hongguang. In order to pay the deposit, Lao Gan and I pressed all that we could, but the hotel owner refused to agree.
“It’s outrageous that you want to mortgage a car with these two mobile phones.” The boss said with difficulty.
I now particularly regret the P***yfooting around yesterday, I shouldn’t have let Lao Gan give all the money to the two Lu brothers first, what can I do now?
I was in a hurry, when suddenly Baldy stretched out a hand from behind me and put 30,000 yuan to the boss.
“Is that enough?”
“Enough, that’s enough, here are the keys to the car. I said in advance that it’s okay to use the car, you’ll give me the gas to work overtime, and if you incur any other related costs, you’ll have to pay me back.”
“Definitely!”
We rushed into the car park in the pouring rain and when Old Gump and I were seated separately, I saw Baldy’s grim face in the rear view mirror.
I was startled, and Lao Gan wasn’t much better, also startled by Baldy.
“When did you get in the car?” I asked.
I asked not feeling him get in the car at all.
Baldy squared his duck-top hat against the car window and said, “Just now.”
Come on, asked a bullSh*t question.
There was nothing I could say but to drive, the car was secured by someone’s deposit anyway, we couldn’t leave without him, and besides, Baldy had saved my life.
Old Gump told me to leave him under the company building, I was worried about his safety, but Old Gump rea*sured me that the people protecting him had arrived and that no one in the company would dare to touch him easily now.
I didn’t quite believe it, but since Old Gump insisted, I had to let him out of the car.
When Lao Gan got out of the car, I stepped on the accelerator and suddenly realised, “Where is Baldy?
When did this guy disappear, why does he look like a ghost?
I didn’t have time to care about Baldy right now, what I was most concerned about was Chu Xiaoxiao. I had been trapped in the motel for so many days, and Chu Xiaoxiao must be the same.
I hurriedly drove the car to the Lido and was just about to go upstairs when the receptionist, who knew me, called me.
“Mr. Zhang, your girlfriend has checked out and she asked me to leave a message for you.”
“When did that happen, how did she leave with such a big typhoon?” I didn’t feel right, what was it that was going to make Chu Xiaoxiao check out of the room on such a heavy typhoon day?
“Her family came to pick her up, she asked me to tell you that she went back to take care of some family matters first, don’t go looking for her yet, she will definitely come to you when she’s done with it, don’t worry.”
How could I not be anxious?
