Chapter 54: Tiger running after the thief
"What's the matter?" Jiang Fuyue went straight to the point.
The opening remarks that Hu Ben had prepared got stuck in his throat and he had to swallow them back into his stomach.
"...Yes, there is something." he said.
"speak."
"How about I treat you to a meal? We can drink and talk?"
Jiang Fuyue glanced at him, smiling: "Do you think it's appropriate?"
Hu Ben glanced at her school uniform and her overly young face. It really didn't seem right...
"Eight o'clock in the evening, Chunfeng Street, Niu Sao Food Stall." After saying that, Jiang Fuyue turned and left.
Hu Ben didn't follow.
…
Night, eight o'clock.
Chunfeng Street welcomes a peak in customer flow, with food stalls everywhere and people from all walks of life gathering here.
Hu Ben sat on a plastic chair with a small square table in front of him and a plate of salted peanuts on the table.
"What time is it now?" He peeled one and put it in his mouth.
Xiaoliu pulled out his phone: "Seven fifty. Brother Hu, do you think she's playing a trick on us?"
“No.”
"But it's already this late and he hasn't come yet..."
"What's the rush? Wait a little longer."
A few minutes later, Jiang Fu Yue still didn't show up.
Xiaoliu curled his lips, saying that women talking sounded like farting.
Hu Ben frowned and looked grim.
Just as the two were about to get up and leave, a pair of long legs stopped beside them. They looked up and met the cold and calm eyes under the girl's baseball cap.
Hu Ben was startled and tried to retreat, almost falling backwards.
Xiaoliu looked down at his phone and saw that the time was exactly 20:00!
"Come, come, sit down..." Hu Ben forced a wry smile and instructed Xiao Liu to give up his seat to Jiang Fuyue.
"Don't bother." She walked over and sat down opposite.
Hu Ben shouted and ordered dishes, and when asking for wine, Jiang Fuyue said she didn't want to drink.
"...Alright, boss lady, give me a drink!"
This time, Jiang Fuyue did not wear a school uniform, but a solid cotton T-shirt, paired with cropped jeans, revealing her snow-white and slender ankles.
It blends completely into the surrounding environment and is inconspicuous at first glance.
But from the angle of Hu Ben, one can still see that her back is straighter than that of ordinary people. Although the brim of her hat covers most of her face, the skin exposed is as white as snow.
Whether in terms of body shape, temperament or behavior, he doesn't look like a high school student.
"You only have twenty minutes." Jiang Fuyue said calmly, "Just say what you want to say."
The moment he raised his eyes, Hu Ben hurriedly looked away, "Ah! What happened last time...you tricked me and my brother."
Jiang Fuyue raised an eyebrow and leaned back in her chair: "So, you are here to settle accounts with me today?"
"Don't be so hostile, we're not friends until we fight..."
Jiang Fuyue didn't respond.
Hu Ben continued shamelessly: "It's fate that we met! As the saying goes, it takes a hundred years to be able to be on the same boat, and a thousand years..."
Well!
Jiang Fuyue's eyes turned cold.
"No... I'm just giving an example, for example!"
"You still have fifteen minutes." Youyou reminded.
Hu Ben gritted his teeth and said, "Since you are so capable, you should not mind showing the brothers a way to make money."
"What's the meaning?"
"My men got beaten because of you, and now two of them are lying in bed," Hu Ben's tone suddenly dropped. "How do you think we can resolve this?"
Jiang Fuyue understood.
The so-called "road to wealth" is, to put it bluntly, extortion.
Unfortunately, she was blackmailed.
"How do you want to solve it?"
Hu Ben met those eyes, which were clearly black and white, and felt an indescribable sense of guilt and shortness of breath. "At least you have to give me some money for the medicine..."
really!
Jiang Fuyue asked him, "When you and your brothers got into a fight, did they compensate you if you got hurt?"
“…”
"I'm afraid there's no such rule in the entire Dao! What? Are you planning to establish a sect and become the founder?"
Hu Ben's face twitched.
"You can be your ancestor, that's fine, but it's not nice that you picked on me."
"W-What's wrong?"
Jiang Fuyue stood up: "You will be in trouble."
“!”
Xiaoliu stood up immediately: "How dare you, woman..."
The next second, he met Jiang Fuyue's cold gaze and suddenly lost his voice, as if an invisible hand was strangling his neck.
Jiang Fuyue: "We agreed that no matter who wins or loses, neither of us would cause trouble for the other. You agreed and swore an oath. If you go back on your word, you will be struck by lightning. Think carefully."
"Not really! It was clearly you who set the trap and deliberately lured me into it!"
"Did you drill it?"
Hu Ben: "..."
"You're stupid, but you blame others for being too smart. That's a bit unreasonable, isn't it?"
A tiger who was nailed to the word "stupid": "..."
Oh my god! She is so humiliating!
Damn!
"Okay," Jiang Fuyue raised her hand: "Exactly twenty minutes, and we'll never see each other again."
"Stop right there—" Xiaoliu rushed out with a fierce tone.
Hu Ben didn't say anything and tacitly agreed with Xiao Liu's behavior.
Jiang Fuyue turned around, a smile that revealed a hint of mystery in the night: "Why, you want to use force?"
Xiaoliu's eyes flashed slightly, he really thought so.
If a fight really breaks out, are two grown men afraid that they can't control a little girl?
"You can try," Jiang Fuyue said, standing face to face with the two men, three meters away. "But please be prepared to bear the consequences."
As for the consequences...
She didn't say anything, but the two of them were horrified by what they heard.
Considering that she had previously designed a fight between the two parties and she was the one who benefited; and with just a few words of advice, she spared them from detention and successfully escaped from the police station; and finally used him to put the other party's people in a sack, no one knew what happened to those bodyguards now, so Hu Ben became scared.
Moreover, she dared to go to the meeting alone in the middle of the night, so she probably had some tricks up her sleeve.
"Xiao Liu, let her go."
"Brother Tiger!"
In the end, the two could only watch Jiang Fuyue leave.
"Brother! Just let it go like this?!"
"What else can we do?"
"We just want the money anyway, so why don't we go find her parents?"
Hu Ben fell into deep thought, obviously tempted by the proposal.
They are just a bunch of hooligans. Whether they fight or brawl, it's all for money.
"Let me think about it first... We'll talk about it tomorrow."
The next morning, Xiaoliu ran to find Hu Ben excitedly: "Brother, we can set off now!"
Hu Ben had just woken up, so his brain was still a little slow to react: "What?"
"Go to the pancake stand and ask that stinky girl's parents for money! I've got all the weapons ready, if they don't give it to me, I'll smash the shop!"
Hu Ben frowned, his eyes showing hesitation.
"Brother, we can't delay paying the medical bills at the clinic any longer, otherwise Ah Cai and Ah Zhuang will be kicked out!"
"...Okay! I'll go! Only take what's handy. No bladed ones allowed."
"I know, we only seek wealth, not life."
After they left the house, they did not go directly to the pancake shop, but instead had breakfast at a noodle stall downstairs.
There was a copy of today's Morning Post on the table. Hu Ben picked it up and read it while eating.
Then……
The more he watched, the slower his movements of picking noodles became. In the end, he stopped chewing and his eyes widened.
Xiaoliu: "Brother? Brother?!"
"...Look at the Li Xue and Li family written here. Aren't they the same people who fought with us that day?!"
Xiao Liu was stunned: "I remember her name was Li Xue, and the bodyguard even called her Miss..."
(End of this chapter)
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