Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi had no idea that Lin Shan was up to something. The workshop had just opened, and the number of orders was skyrocketing every day. They were so busy every day that they had long forgotten about Lin Shan.
Lin Shan was quiet for two days after his plan to use Xie Qingxiao and Lin Xiangyi's cooperation with the meat processing plant to threaten them failed.
That day, Xie Qingxiao went to the county town to check on the work of Zhang Pengfei and others. On the way back, he took a look around to see if there were any suitable stores to rent or sell.
From a distance, he saw Er Laizi riding a bicycle and chasing him loudly.
"Brother Xiao! Brother Xiao! I finally found you!"
"What's the matter?" Xie Qingxiao wiped his sweat and took out two bottles of soda from the bag hanging on his bicycle. He bought them when he passed by the supply and marketing cooperative just now.
He opened one bottle for himself and gave the other to Er Laizi.
Er Laizi was so tired that he was sweating and panting. He took the soda that Xie Qingxiao threw to him, opened it and drank it. After drinking it, before he had time to take a breath, he said hurriedly: "Brother Xiao, there is a move from the woman you asked me to keep an eye on. She is getting together with a widower two streets away from the Lin family!"
Xie Qingxiao was full of absurdity. Did Chen Fengmei really have a lover? Maybe the child in her belly really wasn't Lin Shan's?
"But they are very secretive. They haven't had any serious contact in more than a month. Yesterday, the old woman went out to buy vegetables and was stopped by the old widower in a small alley. He asked Chen Fengmei to go to his house."
"When the widower called her, she was obviously very nervous and scared. Although she was not in there for long, only about ten minutes, she was sorting out her clothes when she came out. I guess the widower must have frozen her hands and feet!"
"This is definitely not a coincidence, because she took the initiative to find the widower this morning and gave him some money. We didn't see how much money she gave him, but it must have been a lot."
Why would a woman who has a man and a child secretly give money to a man she has nothing to do with? And she looks so nervous? There must be something fishy going on!
Xie Qingxiao pondered for a moment and asked, "What's the situation with the old widower?"
"The old widower doesn't look bad, but he's lazy and a gambler. His wife died of complications during childbirth ten years ago. Since he and his wife have two sons and two daughters, the people he dated were attracted by his looks but not his conditions, so he hasn't remarried in all these years."
"Gambling?" Xie Qingxiao grasped the key words.
"Yes," Er Laizi said, "He lost more than a hundred yuan a few days ago, and he probably asked Chen Fengmei for the money to pay it back."
"Take me to see it," Xie Qingxiao said.
"Okay!" Er Laizi jumped into the car and took Xie Qingxiao to find the widower.
They came to a small casino - it was unknown which gambler's home was. The family members were sitting in the yard knitting sweaters in fear. When they saw someone coming, they looked very panicked and avoided looking at anyone.
There was a man sitting at the door, checking the identity of the visitor - the country is currently cracking down on pornography, gambling and drugs, and people are not allowed to play cards or gamble.
Er Laizi has a gangster temperament. Xie Qingxiao was also a gangster in society before. With a little bit of pretense, the gangster spirit that is not easy to mess with comes out.
The two entered the "casino" smoothly.
The inside of the casino was extremely dark, the doors were closed, the only small window was also sealed, and the strong smell of cigarettes and alcohol filled every corner of the room.
Xie Qingxiao coughed somewhat uncomfortably.
Every now and then someone would take the time to look at them.
Erlaizi smiled awkwardly, but Xie Qingxiao was very calm. He looked around and his eyes fell on a man who looked to be in his fifties with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes. He turned back to look at Erlaizi.
Er Laizi nodded calmly.
Xie Qingxiao stood next to the man and watched their card game.
"Brother, let's play a game?" Someone called out to Xie Qingxiao with an inquiring look.
Xie Qingxiao nodded, "Okay." Then he sat down in that man's seat and took out his chips from his pocket - the deposit for tomorrow that he had just collected, a total of more than two hundred yuan.
When the people at the card game saw such a thick stack of money, their eyes suddenly lit up - especially the widower with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes sitting opposite Xie Qingxiao.
At this time, someone at the card table recognized Er Laizi as a street thug, and completely dispelled his suspicion of Xie Qingxiao and Er Laizi, and gradually became familiar with them.
After introducing each other's names, Xie Qingxiao also learned the old widower's name - Wang Dongsheng.
At the beginning, Xie Qingxiao deliberately lost a few games.
Everyone thought that Xie Qingxiao didn't understand cards, and they looked at Xie Qingxiao as if he was a fat sheep.
Wang Dongsheng was no exception. He had been losing before Xie Qingxiao came, but he won as soon as Xie Qingxiao came. He grinned and bet bigger and bigger.
Only Er Laizi next to Xie Qingxiao looked at Wang Dongsheng with sympathy, thinking that he was going to be unlucky today.
Sure enough, after a while, Wang Dongsheng started to lose slowly - not only to Xie Qingxiao, but also to everyone else at the table.
Of course, the one I lost to the most was Xie Qingxiao.
In just two hours, he lost three hundred yuan, of which two hundred yuan was lost to Xie Qingxiao!
Xie Qingxiao held a cigarette in his mouth and threw the cards: "Let's stop here today, give me the money."
When he said this, he first glanced at Wang Dongsheng, and then looked around at the others.
Everyone else owed Xie Qingxiao money to some extent, but not as much as Wang Dongsheng.
After the card game just now, everyone knew that Xie Qingxiao was not someone to be trifled with, so they all said:
"I owe you, Brother Xie, more than 30 yuan, right? Lao Wang, you also owe me about the same amount, right? Then just pay it back for me."
"Oh, yes, Lao Wang, you also owe me about ten yuan, so just give it back to Brother Xie. Brother Xie, apart from the ten yuan, I still owe you ten yuan, right? Here."
"I owe Brother Xie twenty dollars, Lao Wang, you owe me fifty dollars, so you give Brother Xie twenty dollars and give me thirty dollars!"
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All together, the gambling debt pledged to Wang Dongsheng was nearly 80 yuan. In other words, Wang Dongsheng owed Xie Qingxiao more than 280 yuan.
Wang Dongsheng looked dejected: "Thank you, brother. I don't have that much money on me right now!"
"Hmm?" Xie Qingxiao smiled and said, "Brother Wang, what you mean is that you don't have that much money, so you don't plan to give me money?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the scoundrel who was standing on him came forward with shifty eyes and a serious face, as if he would punch Wang Dongsheng if he dared to say that he was not going to pay back the money.
People like Er Laizi are proficient in all kinds of stealing and cheating. If they were on the street, everyone would hate them.
Everyone present looked down on him, but even though they looked down on him, no one dared to provoke Er Lai Zi.
It is better to offend a gentleman than to offend a villain.
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