Chapter 6 The debt collector comes to your door
He did not choose to go home, after all, it was already very late. Normally, Ah Hao should have gone to bed by this time.
Although Zhang Xiufang often comes home so late due to her job, and Ah Hao occasionally stays up very late to do homework, that is rare after all.
He was worried that Lin Jiahao hadn't slept yet and would be worried because they hadn't returned yet so late, so he found a hotel, went to the front desk and made a phone call.
They don't have a telephone at home. There is an uncle downstairs who runs a car park. He has a landline. It costs 50 cents to make a call for 20 minutes. If you make a call, it costs 20 cents per minute. If it exceeds 10 minutes, it will be charged at 50 cents per minute.
The call was connected within a dozen seconds. It seemed that the uncle was still awake. As he got older, he slept less and often had difficulty falling asleep in the first half of the night.
"Uncle, I'm just kidding. Please help get Ah Hao to answer the phone."
"Oh, okay."
If the uncle howled during the day, Lin Jiahao would come downstairs to answer the call himself, but it was already midnight and the loud noise would disturb others, so he went upstairs with the phone.
Lin Jianyan didn't hang up the phone. The uncle was not afraid of wasting phone bills since he didn't have to pay for it. After waiting for about five minutes, Lin Jiahao's voice came from the other end of the phone. He was indeed not asleep yet.
"Hey, bro?"
Lin Jianyan explained to him, but didn't dare to tell the truth. She only said that she was very busy today and needed to stay up all night, so she asked him not to wait and go to bed early. She gave him a few more instructions before hanging up the phone.
After paying another ten yuan for phone bill to the front desk, Lin Jianyan cursed this shop in her heart and told Qin Wu to reimburse her for the bill, it was too expensive!
After a tiring day, Lin Jianyan washed up and fell asleep. When he woke up the next day, he saw that it was already 11 o'clock in the hotel, so he hurried to the hospital.
As soon as I arrived at the ward, I saw two people packing up to be discharged.
"You're being discharged from the hospital now?"
Zhang Xiufang smiled and said, "Your uncle De is fine. He is lying in the hospital and the smell is not good. He can just go home and recuperate."
Wang Zhide agreed, "Besides, there are still a lot of things to deal with at the club, and I can't stay in the hospital all the time. I'm lucky to be fine, and I feel relieved when I go back."
Lin Jianyan nodded, "Okay, I'll go pay the bill, and Mom will call a car. You can go back to Uncle De's house first. Uncle De is having a hard time being alone, and I have to go home to see him."
Wang Zhide waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, I'll pay the bill."
Lin Jianyan looked at his pocketless clothes and said, "Uncle De, do you have money?" Then he looked at Zhang Xiufang and said, "Mom, you don't have enough money either."
The two looked at each other and blushed, "Then I'm sorry to trouble you, Yanzi."
"We are all family from now on, so there is no need to talk about any problems."
The two of them heard the sarcasm in his words. Zhang Xiufang and Wang Zhide quickly ran away, otherwise they would lose face.
The three of them split up into two groups. Lin Jianyan got in a car and went home. After getting out of the car, he took out some money and gave it to the driver. After calculating the money he had spent in the past two days, his heart was bleeding.
Qin Wu must reimburse him for the expenses, as half a month's salary in the hospital is gone.
As soon as he entered the yard, he saw those three scoundrels again. Lin Jianyan rolled his eyes. What bad luck.
Huang Liang saw Lin Jianyan quickly straightened his collar and cleared his throat: "Yanzi, three days have passed, and today is the fourth day. What do you think?
Lin Jianyan lowered her eyes when she heard this, and her expression was so sad that it made people feel distressed. At least Huang Liang felt so distressed that his heart was about to break. "Brother Huang Liang, my father was injured these two days and is still in the hospital. I am not in the mood to think about these things for the time being."
Huang Liang was still anxious, but his younger brother behind him was anxious, "Hey! That means you lied to us again!"
It seems like today is going to be a tough day without making some money.
Lin Jianyan gritted his teeth, took out ten yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into Huang Liang's hand, his expression almost crying: "This is all I have, I really don't have any more, give me a few more days." After saying that, he covered his face and ran inside. If he didn't leave, he would be exposed, and he was about to laugh.
"Hey! You're giving ten dollars to a beggar..."
Huang Liang stared blankly at the ten yuan in his hand. He was suddenly startled by the loud voice and slapped him in the face. "Why are you yelling? Don't you see how sad he is? He even gave me his last ten yuan. You still make things difficult for him. Are you a human being?"
Another little brother suddenly woke up, "It's not brother, didn't his father die a long time ago? How could he have a father?"
Huang Liang glared at him, "It can't be that he recognizes his godfather! His father is my father, and my father is your father. Our father is sick and you are still urging him. You are not a human being."
Two younger brothers: “…”Okay!
The two of them looked at the money in his hand hesitantly: "What about this ten yuan?"
Huang Liang stuffed some fish balls in front of them and said impatiently, "Here, here, eat your fish balls."
The two of them looked at the wrinkled change in their hands and thought, okay, it was worth the trip as long as they could eat the fish balls.
Lin Jianyan went upstairs and found that Lin Jiahao was not at home. Since there should be no classes today, Sunday, he should be doing odd jobs.
Lin Jianyan changed her clothes, put on a white shirt underneath and a denim jacket, looking extremely youthful and fashionable.
Just after he finished cleaning up, he heard knocking on the door, which made him alert. Mom and Ah Hao would not knock on the door, they both had keys, and neighbors would not knock on the door so hard, as if they had a grudge against each other.
Lin Jianyan was shocked. Could it be that the debt collectors came again? She really wanted to curse them. Didn’t they come just last month? And the money had already been paid off. Why were these scumbags still not willing to let them go?
He looked left and right in the house and there was no place for him to hide. Even if he did hide, he would be nowhere to hide once they broke in. And from the way they acted, they knew he was back and must have been waiting for him for the past two days.
The person outside the door became impatient, "Open the door! I know you are home!"
Lin Jianyan groaned in annoyance and had no choice but to open the door. When he opened the door, it turned out to be the scumbag from the debt collection business. Lin Jianyan did not show any good face, "Why are you here again? Haven't you already paid the bill?"
The leading man was holding a brick-like mobile phone in his hand. He pushed the other person's door open and walked in nonchalantly. He sat down on the sofa without any courtesy. Behind him were four or five younger men in flowery shirts. They walked in a shabby manner and started rummaging through drawers and cabinets as soon as they entered the room.
"Brother, you are too poor. You don't even have anything to eat except rice and flour."
"I'd like to find a bottle of wine."
Lin Jianyan's face was a little cold, and he looked at the group of people with disgust. Everyone called the leading man 'Lai Tou Biao', and his subordinates called him Brother Biao. He was the second in command of some gang. No one knew how famous that gang was, but anyway, this 'Lai Tou Biao' had never done anything good, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was shot repeatedly in the future.
Wang Biao cleared his throat and spat, then he looked at Lin Jianyan pretentiously and said, "When did I ever say that your family's debts were paid off?"
Lin Jianyan stared at the stain on the floor with dark eyes, and laughed fiercely in his heart: Okay, you're done.
Lin Jianyan lowered his eyes to cover his gaze: "Brother Biao, you can see that our family is really out of money."
Wang Biao was waiting for this sentence. He stroked his chin and looked at him with ill intention: "I also know that your family is not easy. Isn't this a good way out for you?"
Lin Jianyan looked at him with a half-smile, thinking he was up to no good: "What good way out?"
Wang Biao said this with a 'you're so lucky' expression on his face: "There is a club that is in need of a top young master. If you go there, I guarantee you'll make a lot of money. You just need to talk to those big guys, have a drink, and the money will be in your hands!" He also had an envious look on his face as he said this, wishing he could take their place.
Sure enough, Lin Jianyan took a deep breath, his face was almost dark, "Thank you for your kindness, brother Biao. I am not interested in this, so I can only waste your hard work. I have something else to do, so I will not see you off."
Wang Biao was not angry at all. He just calmly took out a piece of paper from his inner pocket and slapped it on the coffee table: "Take a look."
Lin Jianyan's eyes dimmed as he looked at the words on the paper. It was a written IOU, and it looked like it was not the original one. He couldn't help but laugh in anger, "What is this? You asked me to recognize a piece of waste paper? It seems that Brother Biao has a bit of senility at such a young age."
Wang Biao slammed his hand on the table and said, "I'm telling you, you have to admit it whether you want to or not. Here's the IOU, which says you still owe me 100,000 yuan. If you don't pay me back, I'll sell you. You have to choose one of the two."
Wang Biao was calculating in his mind. Zhang Xiufang had only loaned him 50,000 yuan in the beginning, and the interest eventually doubled. It took their family nearly ten years to pay back the money. Now, the family definitely couldn't afford the 100,000 yuan, and in the end, they would have to go with him.
"Choose!" Wang Biao looked at him, his attitude softened, and he advised earnestly: "I think you should just come with me. Isn't it easier to eat and drink well than to work several jobs a day?"
Lin Jianyan lowered his head with a gloomy look in his eyes, and Wang Biao did not urge him. In his mind, this matter was a cooked duck that could not escape from his control.
After a long while, Lin Jianyan seemed to have figured it out, and suddenly laughed, "Brother Biao, you are right."
Wang Biao was overjoyed, thinking that he had finally figured it out. "That's right. It saves me from having to use force, and you'll suffer less."