I scanned the yard for a Hummer with local plates and asked Cai Xiaobing whose car it was, pretty sure that it was definitely not the Snow Leopard’s car.
“I almost forgot to tell you, Baldy’s here to see you.”
“What’s up?”
“I don’t know.” Cai Xiaobing put her hand to my ear and said, “But he’s in a bad mood, do you owe him money?”
“Does it look like it to you?”
I put my arm around Chu Xiaoxiao next to me and together we walked towards the living room. Chu Xiaoxiao also had a different look on her face and said to me, “Baldy seems to be in a really bad mood, it’s very strange.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Do you really owe him money?” Chu Xiaoxiao asked.
These two confused me with one question each, it didn’t seem like a joke.
Baldy was standing in the living room, and when he saw me coming, he put his hat on backwards, a move that gave me goose bumps, because he only did that when he was looking for a fight.
“You guys leave for a minute, I need to talk to Zhang Chao alone.”
Baldy said to Chu Xiaoxiao and Cai Xiaobing, who of course were reluctant, as Baldy’s eyes were red and he looked emotionally unstable.
“You guys leave for a while, nothing will happen.”
With my persuasion, these two had to leave uneasily.
As soon as they left, Baldy was the one who pulled out a piece of paper from his watch pocket and unfolded it for me to see. It turned out to be the three million cheque I had written to Xing’er and Ah Yu last time, which he pushed back in front of me.
“What’s going on?”
Baldy was in desperate need of money, Xing’er’s heart transplant was just around the corner and the trip would cost no less than a million.
Baldy said, “I know Xing’er’s and Yu’s are not worth that much money, but I can’t cash the three million cheque.”
“What? It’s impossible.”
I took the cheque and checked it carefully, but I hadn’t written a single word wrong. I hadn’t filled in the date, which had to be filled in on the day Baldy picked up the money, and I had written the rest correctly.
I didn’t think about other possibilities at the time, I just wondered if the cheque was misspelled. Anyone who has ever written a cheque knows that even one misspelled punctuation mark on a cheque can result in it being returned and the money not being taken out.
Baldy took the cheque back, cupped it in his hand, on the verge of wrinkling it, and said with suppressed anger, “The bank guy said your account was frozen and you couldn’t withdraw the money.”
It dawned on me and I said, “I hadn’t thought about it until you said it, but it’s been delayed. My account was frozen a few days ago and I haven’t had time to unfreeze it yet, which should have affected this cheque as well. Don’t worry, I’ll go to the bank now.”
I took the car keys and Baldy was rather confused by my attitude, “You ……”
“You really think I got a blank cheque to fool you, then you underestimate me. Not to mention, just because we are brothers, I would not fool you with a blank check.”
Baldy’s face flushed and he turned his hat back, “I misunderstood you.”
So, I had just come back from outside and now I was going out again with Baldy. Before I left, I thought about it and took Meng Meng with me.
Meng Meng cried and laughed as he got into the car, “Come again.”
Before I left, I called Cai Xiaobing and told him not to do anything bad again, and Meng Meng slapped him on the head: “Be smart, I have a lot of things to do, so I can’t go out again.”
Cai Xiaobing stood at attention and gave me a military salute, “Don’t worry about the other side, I promise to complete my mission and make sure the informant escapes safely.”
“You brat, and shady.” I laughed and rubbed his head, admonishing him again, making sure to act like he didn’t know the situation before he did.
Cai Xiaobing patted his chest and a*sured me that he would complete the mission this time.
I didn’t let Chu Xiaoxiao follow me, it was always dangerous for me to be outside the villa, so I might as well leave her with the Snow Leopard Brigade for the safest.
“By the way, how is Xing’er’s health now?” I asked.
“It’s okay, but there’s an operation coming up, I can’t let her know about it, I’m afraid she’ll ……”
Anyway, it was my fault for doing this, I said, “Brother, don’t worry, I am lacking in everything, just not money. You don’t have to let her know either, lest you make her worry.”
At the mention of Xing’er, Baldy’s expression softened and he said, “I’m not afraid of her worrying, you don’t know her. If she knew that the money was gone, she would in turn persuade me to give up the treatment.”
Xing’er was indeed such a woman, unlike her brother Ayu, who would rather die than beg for money.
I rubbed my nose as the car turned into a bank, parked and we got out together and went into the bank, I walked straight towards the VIP section.
I was a VIP at almost every bank in the city of Tong, as I had significant deposits at almost every bank.
This was the case when Han Kun pa*sed on these inheritances to me, and all these banks worked very hard to develop me as a VIP.
So when I was at the bank, I went straight to the VIP section and never had to queue.
But today, just as I walked up to the door of the VIP area, the lobby manager immediately ran up with a smile, “Young Zhang, what kind of business are you here for today?”
We were standing right at the door of the VIP area and I pointed to the chairs and said, “Sit down and talk.”
The lobby manager squeezed hard in front of us and smilingly reached out to the lobby outside and said, “That makes sense, please have a seat.”
I could see what was going on even if I was blind, this guy wouldn’t let me go to the VIP section.
That was odd, no matter where I had been looked down upon by the unenlightened, the people at the bank had never turned their noses up at me.
For one thing, they know how much I have in savings, and for another, the service at the bank has always been good. Usually, even if I want to have a ma*sage in the VIP area, they can learn to do it for me now, not to mention sitting down in the VIP area.
I didn’t move, he didn’t give me face, and I certainly wouldn’t give him face.
I said without mercy, “What, the sofa in your VIP area is encrusted with diamonds and now I can’t sit on it?”
The lobby manager still had that smiling look on his face, a very modest look, but I could see that he was hiding something in his smile: “That’s not true, even if it’s encrusted with diamonds, VIPs can still sit on it.”
“Then what do you mean by that?”
“Young Zhang, what about you, you won’t be the VIP of our family anymore.”
“Interesting.” I a*sociated this with the fact that my cards were all frozen and asked, “OK, then you’ll unfreeze my cards and I’ll withdraw all the money from your house.”
“You can’t withdraw your money either.”
Meng Meng got angry and sneered, “What, your bank is still going to run as a black shop, huh?”
“That’s not true, your card has been filed for property preservation and frozen by the court. If you have doubts, you can go to the court.”
“What property am I preserving? Who do I have a lawsuit against.”
His attitude grew arrogant: “Where would I know that, it’s your own business.”
Although Baldy didn’t say anything, a cold sweat came down on his forehead; the three million was Xing’er’s life-saving money.
I really didn’t think I would ever have to worry about money after I turned 19.
“Let me see the court papers.” I said.
“How can I show this to you.”
I lost my voice and laughed, “So the forty million I have in your bank is just frozen up and there’s no comment on anything I ask.”
“Who told the court to look into you? You have to be reasonable. It’s useless for you to stalk me here, so why don’t you deal with your own lawsuit earlier so that the money can be unfrozen in time?”
He patted his suit and stood up, looking at me with an arrogant look that he couldn’t even hide: “But I heard you didn’t have much money before, so you’re used to it now.”
“Who are you talking to, a service worker?” Meng Meng couldn’t listen any longer.
“Huh.” He doesn’t treat me like a VIP now, his eyes want to grow to the sky.
