Darkness
Wei Mingjue took the initiative to contact Zou Yuyang and asked him to meet in his office. He had originally planned to meet with Zou Yuyang alone to discuss something, but unexpectedly, Wei Mingyu also came along. Looking at the two people sticking together, Wei Mingjue pursed his lips and pressed his solar plexus.
That's right, Wei Mingyu and he are brothers, so in some ways they are exactly the same. So his beloved brother must be monitoring Zou Yuyang's every move. When he learned that Zou Yuyang was coming to his place today, he insisted on coming along. Although Zou Yuyang is an Alpha, he has no opinions of his own, so he can only let Wei Mingyu follow him.
"Brother, why did you call Yu Yang here today?" Wei Mingyu asked Zou Yuyang in confusion while holding his arm.
Turning his eyes away from the two people's arms, Wei Mingjue did not answer his brother's words, but looked at Zou Yuyang, "Let me ask you, how did you convince Zou Yuqing to go to Venery to help you every time?" He was very curious, what made Zou Yuqing willing to go to that kind of place every time to clean up the mess for his distant brother?
Zou Yuyang was stunned. He was very nervous when Wei Mingjue contacted him, thinking that he had offended this terrible person again. He also wondered whether Wei Mingjue wanted to secretly get rid of him without Wei Mingyu's knowledge.
Although he didn't know how Wei Mingyu knew he was going to see Wei Mingjue, he felt relieved to have Wei Mingyu there. Didn't he expect that he was asking about Zou Yuqing?
Coming back to his senses, Zou Yuyang replied, "I didn't say much. I just said I would give him some money. You know his family is poor and very short of money, and he needs to buy all kinds of medicine, so he always agreed readily."
Faced with this half-true and half-false answer, Wei Mingjue did not take it too seriously. When he heard Zou Yuyang say "their family", he just found it a little funny. It was obvious that Zou Yuqing and they were also a family.
Wei Mingjue had probably guessed that Zou Yuyang would use money to get rid of Zou Yuqing. After confirming this, he asked, "How did you offer the price? Based on the severity of the trouble? Don't hide it, just tell me what you paid."
Under such oppressive circumstances, even with Wei Mingyu by his side, Zou Yuyang was still a little nervous. "For every slap or punch, I'll give him one thousand, calculated by the number of times... If he's beaten up by a group of people, it'll be five thousand, and it'll be higher if he's seriously injured." He hesitantly said.
"Then how do you know how many times he was hit?" Wei Mingjue frowned, puzzled. "You were there too?"
"Well... usually I hide at the table in the far corner of Venery and watch."
Wei Mingjue didn't know how to react. Listening to Zou Yuyang's words, he suddenly felt a little angry. He wanted to stand up and slam the table to beat up the Alpha in front of him, or release his superior pheromones to teach Zou Yuyang a lesson. But Wei Mingyu was still there, so he couldn't do that.
Gritting his teeth, he asked one last question: "How much did you give Mingyu for this matter?"
Who didn't know the Wei family's ways? Even they knew the rumors of their ruthlessness and their involvement in both black and white affairs, though these rumors were half-truths. But how much would it take for Zou Yuqing to agree to take the blame for Zou Yuyang's possible death? One hundred thousand? Two hundred thousand? Wei Mingjue couldn't help but speculate.
"……fifty thousand."
Fifty thousand? Wei Mingjue looked at the Alpha who didn't dare to look him in the eye, and suddenly felt like laughing.
What was Zou Yuqing thinking when he received the fifty thousand? It was so delicious! If it were him, he would be willing to pay ten or even twenty times the price for it. But he knew Zou Yuqing wasn't the kind of Alpha who would sell himself out for money.
"Let Zou Yuqing return the fifty thousand to you." After thinking for a while, Wei Mingjue crossed his hands and rested his chin on them, then looked at Zou Yuyang with a smile.
"Ah?" Zou Yuyang was stunned. This was something he had never expected.
"What's wrong? Neither you nor he has any loss in this matter, so why do you want to spend these 50,000, or is my brother worth 50,000?" Wei Mingjue said and deliberately glanced at Wei Mingyu again.
Sure enough, after hearing what his brother said, Wei Mingyu agreed: "Yes, there is no need to spend the 50,000 yuan. It is better to keep it to buy milk powder and toys for our children."
Zou Yuyang had already thought about this. Encouraged by the two Wei brothers, he pretended to think about it for a moment, then nodded. "Then how should I tell him?"
"This is your business. Just make him return the 50,000 to you. Of course, you can't mention me." After saying that, Wei Mingjue waved his hand, indicating that the two people in front of him could leave.
After Zou Yuyang and Wei Mingyu left, Wei Mingjue slumped back in his office chair and smiled. Fifty thousand yuan was a pittance to him. If Zou Yuqing had lost it, he would have contacted him.
He was looking forward to the day when Zou Yuqing would take the initiative to find him.
*
Zou Yuqing threw the business card that had been forced upon him into the trash can without hesitation. The next day, he took a leave of absence and went to the city hospital to get medicine for his mother.
The prescriptions were dispensed at a fixed time each month, and now with 50,000 yuan in hand, Zou Yuqing decided to get better medication for his mother. Medications for depression and mania are unlike medications for some physical illnesses. They might not be very effective, or even have side effects over time. But if there's even a glimmer of benefit, Zou Yuqing is willing to spend the money.
Because he had sufficient funds, he bought a six-month supply at once, using only the best medicine. Thinking that his mother might get better with the new medicine, Zou Yuqing's mood brightened.
But he didn't expect that Zou Yuyang would call him a few days later.
"Zou Yuqing, please find time to transfer the 50,000 yuan I transferred to you before back to my account. Something happened to me, and I won't ask you to help me solve it this time. I will transfer the money directly to them, the sooner the better." After saying that, Zou Yuyang hung up the phone without waiting for his response.
What does that mean? Are they asking him to return the fifty thousand? Zou Yuqing frowned and called Zou Yuyang back several times, but Zou Yuyang didn't answer. He could only send a text message: "Zou Yushen will give you the money, right? I've already used the fifty thousand and can't give it back to you. Besides, that was originally agreed upon."
It was ridiculous. No one knew what he had paid for the 50,000 yuan. Zou Yuyang should have borne all that, but why did he want the money back now?
Zou Yuyang replied after a long while: You have nothing to lose, so let me be frank with you. I owe the casino money, more than 50,000. My dad can't know about this. I'm being polite by asking you to return the 50,000. If you don't give it to me, I will transfer the gambling debt to you, and you will pay it back for me then.
Gambling debts…Zou Yuyang went gambling? Zou Yuqing froze in his tracks, his grip on the phone tightening after reading the last two sentences. He knew Zou Yuyang was capable of anything. Even though he was so timid, he could still cause trouble, potentially alarming the entire city.
He didn't know what to do. He had already spent the money, not only on medicine for his mother but also on replacing some furniture to make his home look less gloomy. But his life was already dark and gloomy, as if he was trapped by all the darkness.
The phone vibrated again, and Zou Yuyang sent another message: Xu Jie destroyed my family and my mother, and I can also destroy you.
How much more ruined could it be considered ruined? Zou Yuqing looked around his shabby little home, looked at his mother sitting motionless on the sofa, and then looked at himself - a abused Alpha.
He smiled bitterly and replied: I will raise the money as soon as possible.
How could he scrape together fifty thousand? Working odd jobs at the supermarket? How long would it take him to earn that much? He glanced at the medicine on the table—it was his mother's life-saving medicine. There was nothing valuable in the house that he could sell for money, and he wasn't willing to ask Xu Wang for a loan.
Zou Yuqing sat dejectedly on the sofa with his head down for the entire afternoon. Finally, he stood up resignedly and walked to the trash can in the room. He squatted down and took out the crumpled business card.
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