“Fanfan, are you all right?”
When I found Lin Fang, she was sitting alone in a corner, fuming, the coffee in front of her was cold and she hadn’t even taken a sip.
Lin Fang was surprised: “What brings you here?”
Her eyes were red, as if she had been crying, and I asked her worriedly what was wrong. Had she been bullied?
“Was it Chen Yu Zhou who bullied you? I’ll go and settle the score with him!”
“Stop right there!” Lin Fang pulled me back and said nervously, “Why are you going, it has nothing to do with him.”
I breathed a sigh of relief, “Then who is bullying you? Your eyes are all red from crying.”
“No, no one, I’m here alone for a bit of peace and quiet.”
I sat down opposite Lin Fang, there was still an imprint left by a tea cup on the table, it couldn’t be that the waiter hadn’t wiped the table, there must have been someone sitting over here earlier and the coffee cup was later taken away when it was finished, but why would Lin Fang lie to me?
I couldn’t help but think of Chen Yu Zhou, was it really a coincidence that I met him in this place?
I didn’t say anything, my fingers wiped the watermark on the table, and was thinking of what to ask Lin Fang, I couldn’t make her angry, but I had to ask clearly, just then, Lin Fang said a little nervously, “Hey, it was actually those debtors of Lin Kang.”
“There’s a reason for them to come to you! Who came looking for you, I’ll find them!”
I knew that something must have happened for Lin Fang to be so sad. It was bad luck to have a brother like Lin Kang. Lin Fang didn’t even owe any money, yet she had to keep wiping Lin Kang’s a*s.
Lin Fang cried and pulled me back, “Don’t go to them, they know you have police friends and don’t dare to do anything to you, but once your friends leave, they will torture Lin Kang.”
“Who dares to do anything, I’ll F**king send him to the station! Don’t worry, Fang Fang, I’ll never let these guys get away with it!”
“Don’t you go, I beg you don’t go. They have ways to torture us, they are not beating Lin Kang with their hands, but they are pestering him every day, he can’t get out of the house and he has no way to work, if this goes on Lin Kang will be ruined.”
I thought to myself that Lin Kang was already a loser, who could make a loser even more of a loser? But when I saw how sad Lin Fang looked, I couldn’t say the words that came out of my mouth.
“Then what? That much money, can you pay it back for him?”
Lin Fang’s tears fell at once, and my heart ached as I hurriedly wiped her tears. I felt like I was being a jerk, but I didn’t have much money, so it didn’t matter if I paid it back for her.
“Don’t you cry, the money, or we’ll think of something together.”
Lin Fang cried even harder, “That’s half a million dollars, where can I think of a way?”
“How did it become half a million?”
“The loan sharks are rolling in interest, and Lin Kang has been cheated! If we don’t pay it back, we really won’t be able to pay it back.”
I really didn’t want to care about that Lin Kang, but Lin Fang was so sad, how could I bear it?
Lin Fang said, “I’ve already taken out a loan of 200,000 today, I can’t take out any more loans, if I had my way I wouldn’t, Zhang Chao, what should I do? Can you help me?”
I was so upset, my heart felt so bad for Lin Fang that I really wanted to tell her that I would pay the whole 500,000.
I wiped away her tears and said after some thought, “Wait for me, I’ll go out and make a call. I’ll, I’ll find my comrades to discuss it ……”
The money is a small matter, but the matter involves loan sharks, which is a triad-related incident. But where the triads are concerned, it’s never a simple matter of handing over money with one hand and settling accounts with the other. If the triads were that reasonable, they wouldn’t be called triads anymore.
There are rules of the jianghu, and I have to find someone special to ask about jianghu matters. I originally wanted to find Zhao Zichen, but when I thought that I had turned down Zhao Zichen’s invitation to cooperate, it would be too much of a non-stuff to call him now, so I dialed Han Kun’s number.
I hadn’t called Han Kun for a long time because of Jiang Ming, and he knew I had a bit of a grudge against him because of this, so he was pleasantly surprised when he got my call this time.
I told him what had happened, and he gave me a salty, uncharacteristic “yes”.
“Uncle Han, I want to help her pay this money back, I know it’s quite a lot of money, but, I don’t want to see her so sad.”
“Well …… is fine.”
“Won’t you persuade me, Uncle Han?”
“It seems you’re hesitant to take it too, and you’re calling in the hope that I’ll scold you awake.”
I sweat, “That’s not true, it’s not that I can’t part with the money. It’s just that I always felt that Lin Kang was a bottomless pit, and if he knew who I was, would he be even more reckless?”
Han Kun laughed, “Since you like this woman, sooner or later you will have to disclose your identity.”
I let out a long sigh, “Hey, Uncle Han, am I being too selfish? Lin Fang genuinely likes me, yet I’ve been thinking about money.”
Han Kun laughed again, and it took a while before he finished laughing and said, “You and your father are really the same, how about this, you might as well lend her 300,000. You can’t give as much as the loan sharks want either, otherwise these buggers will be on to you. Even if you open up your identity later, the loan sharks won’t dare to come after you, but they definitely won’t let go of Lin Kang, the big fish. You pay back the $300,000 principal, and I’ll find someone to talk to them about the rest of the interest. This money, you may not let Lin Fang pay it back, but on the surface, you have to let Lin Kang write you a loan note. You can’t help this kind of gambler wipe his a*s one at a time.”
I let out a long sigh of relief, “Uncle Han! That’s what I’ll do. I’m not going to lie to you, I’m not heartbroken about the money, I’m just afraid I’ll get into more trouble.”
Han Kun laughed, “Trouble will always come when it’s due. However, sometimes small troubles are meant to solve bigger ones ……”
I was confused, I always felt that there was something in his words, but he wouldn’t say it clearly.
I was so happy to solve this big mental baggage.
Back at the café, Lin Fang looked at me with unbridled anticipation.
I told Lin Fang that I had a comrade whose family was in good condition and was willing to lend her 300,000. At the same time, I told Lin Fang that she couldn’t give as much as she wanted to a loan shark, so we would make an appointment to talk to the loan shark and only give her 300,000.
“He, lend it to me directly? Can it work? I, I don’t even know him ……” Lin Fang was a bit torn.
“Don’t worry, this comrade of mine and I have a particularly iron relationship, as long as you get Lin Kang to write an IOU, this comrade of mine will immediately call the money over.”
Lin Fang hesitated: “But Xiao Kang this person simply has no credibility anymore ah, he even owes loan sharks, wrote an IOU to your comrade in arms, but also may still pit, then bad your comradeship will be bad.”
I was incomparably touched mentally, it was already this time, Lin Fang was still thinking about me.
I hugged her, rubbed her neck and murmured, “Don’t worry, if Lin Kang really doesn’t pay, I’ll pay this debt for you even if I smash the pots and pans.”
